Tresha Faye Haefner’s poetry appears, or is forthcoming in several journals and magazines, most notably Blood Lotus, Blue Mesa Review, The Cincinnati Review, Five South, Hunger Mountain, Mid-America Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Radar, Rattle, TinderBox, and Up the Staircase Quarterly. Her work has garnered several accolades, including the 2011 Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize, and a 2012, 2020, and 2021 nomination for a Pushcart. Her first manuscript, Pleasures of the Bear was a finalist for prizes from both Moon City Press and Glass Lyre Press. It is forthcoming from Pine Row Press in 2023.
I fear the cold, walls will fall away. Someone will pull the pins and a map of tsunamis will cover us. The power lines take our power. I fear my blood won’t come. Somebody will take my body and make me a house for someone else to haunt. I fear saying the word no. Because what do I know? I… Read more →