Ashleigh Kennedy

Ashleigh Kennedy is an MFA student at the University of Mississippi. She is the Senior Poetry Editor of the Yalobusha Review and a Garrett Hongo Intern at Poetry Northwest. She has previously been published by Frontier Poetry and the Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle. When she's not busy writing, she enjoys mandolin forums, long walks on the beach, and the Biscoff cookies they give you on the airplane.

Moon Dogs

“Doghood is not the opposite of godhood.” K. Ming Chang, Organ Meats Half lunar, you and I, two strays circlingterrestrial avenues, hunting down a mirroredheat. This town is doused in floodlights,mere earthshine haloing the fields, blurringout the stars. How could it witness our shimmer,the spectacle of our bodies, spectral and risinglike vespers, shivering from so much want?Up here, our griefs… Read more →