Dana Robbins

Following a long career as an attorney, Dana Robbins earned an MFA from the Stonecoast Writers Program of USM. Her two books of poetry, The Left Side of My Life, and After the Parade were published by Moon Pie Press in 2015 and 2020. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and was featured by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's
Almanac.

Birdseed

For May Sarton After the stroke, May’s fans broughther birdseed, in a fifty-pound bagshe couldn’t lift. The poet struggled to rise, to open the door of her home,saw the bag, then burst into tearsof frustration. The bag seemed to torment her,like the high-heeled slipperssomeone gave me after my stroke; like healthy people who told meat twenty-three and paralyzed,it could be… Read more →