Leslie McGrath

is the managing editor of Drunken Boat online journal of the arts. Her poems have appeared in Agni online, Alimentum, Beloit Poetry Journal, Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, Nimrod, Poetry Ireland, and elsewhere. Her literary interviews have appeared in the Writer’s Chronicle and on public radio. Winner of the 2004 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, her first collection of poetry, Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage, was published by Main Street Rag Press (2009.) She is also the editor, along with Ravi Shankar, of Radha Says, the posthumous poetry collection of Reetika Vazirani, published by Drunken Boat Press in 2010.

Slack

her lick and wag
borne better three-legged
than four-
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