Dorothy Wall is author of Identity Theory: Poems (Blue Light Press) and the essay collection, Encounters with the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Southern Methodist University Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Witness, Bellevue Literary Review and Dos Passos Review. She has taught poetry and fiction writing at San Francisco State University and U.C. Berkeley, Extension and works as a writing coach.
Traffic report, Morning Edition, NPRJanuary 2020 All the scattered calamities we leavebehind, those migrations leaving their trail of chaos, saltwater intrusion in Louisianamarshes, ice-free winters in the Bering Sea another spring of beeless trees, the heave of a king tide over washed-out walks, but who can slakethat thirst raking through each of us. Someone is waiting for their refrigerator.Wandering and unplugged,… Read more →
1 When Otto told me about the Danish resistance smuggling Jews to Sweden in fishing boat holds slippery with guts how they wouldn’t take anyone who couldn’t followthe dagger-eyed command for silence no one with a cough, no babiesdrawing German lights toward sound I couldn’t get that out of my mind. Every time I felt a sneeze coming on I wondered… Read more →