Leah Claire Kaminski, Author at Witness

Leah Claire Kaminski

Leah Claire Kaminski’s poems have also appeared or are forthcoming in The Bellingham Review (for which she was a Best New Poets 2017 nominee), FENCE, RHINO, Tupelo Quarterly, and Vinyl; she recently received Grand Prize in the Summer Literary Seminars Fiction & Poetry Contest. A graduate of Harvard and of UC Irvine’s MFA program, she lives in Orange County, where she teaches writing at UC Irvine and is assistant editor at the Rise Up Review.

Visitation, Ashfield

By Leah Claire Kaminski

Poetry•Vol. XXX No. 2 (Summer 2017)

Because the school bus blows grit on my door-resting hand, because I don’t know the notes that fall with birch-yellow leaves in the bright spot ahead, so many they twitter air to shards, because what this makes me feel it isn’t surfaced, so fingers can’t call it cervix-quiet—it just isn’t: horizon-line of scent, any, cutting… [Read More]