Sophie Grimes holds an MFA in Poetry from Boston University and her poems have been published in various literary magazines including Spoon River Poetry Review, The Literary Review, and AGNIonline. She is the author of two chapbooks and her manuscript was a 2018 finalist for the New Issues Poetry Prize. Sophie lives in Chicago with her husband and son where she writes poetry reviews for Publishers Weekly and works for an early childhood care and education advocacy organization.
The lint trap. A larger version of the same thing is the closet, the pantry. Smaller again: the edges of my son’s eyes in the morning, the bladder, the intestine, the womb. Early pregnancy often described as “cells knitting together.” You can’t help but imagine tiny needles working red threads. An old college friend writes, “stick, baby stick,” to all… Read more →