Summer Hardinge lives near the Potomac River in Maryland. A former high school teacher, she leads Amherst Writers and Artists workshops in the Washington D.C. area. Her work may be found in Stonecoast Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Literary Mama, The Rappahannock Review, Peregrine, The Ekphrastic Review, and in the upcoming issue of Broad River Review as the the First Place Winner of the 2024 Ron Rash Poetry Award. Summer is the recipient of the 2019 First Place in the Poetry Contest for the Washington D.C. area, sponsored by Bethesda Urban Partnership. Read more about Summer here.
with thanks to Frank Gaspar When I didn’t set out to write a love poem, on the radiocame reports of the Zodiac and the Moon in a precarious place. Stories of dissonance and strangers as gifts. My thoughts on snowdrops nestled in ice—how they resemble birdnest coral. My neighbor’s head is full of them as she smokes in her car… Read more →