Annie Przypyszny is a poet from Washington, DC pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the University of Maryland. She is an intern at the DC Writers Room and has poems published or forthcoming in Bear Review, The Emerson Review, Sugar House Review, Tampa Review, Atticus Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Champagne Room, The Shore Poetry, Cider Press Review, Soundings East, Poor Yorick, and others.
After James Dickey You’re dissecting a brain. A sheep’s brain. You make a sagittal cut, halving it like an heirloom tomato. But it’s not an heirloom tomato. It’s a sheep’s brain, and it smells like science. You take the left half in your hand. You have the urge to casually toss it in the air and catch it like a… Read more →