Sonya Schneider is a Northwest poet and playwright with San Diego roots. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Rattle, Salamander, The Penn Review, Tar River, Potomac Review, Rust & Moth, Moon City Review, Whale Road Review and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for New Letters Patricia Cleary Miller Award, Raleigh Review’s Laux Millar Poetry Prize, and Atlanta Review’s International Poetry Contest. A graduate of Stanford and Pacific University’s MFA in Poetry, she lives in Seattle with her family.
Cool summer spills down my daughter’s chin and throat. All those flavonoids breaking the blood-brain barrier. I used to buy eight pounds from a guy with a truck, carry them home cradled in their cardboard beds. Sometimes, the flesh yielded, other times, I tore it off the stone. Sometimes, I let the sun dry the juice on my face, other… Read more →