Thought for the Day

Each pause is a wish for things unsaid.

~ Sjohnna McCray

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Quoted from "Comfort Woman" in Sjohnna McCray's Rapture (Graywolf Press, 2016). The collection won the 2015 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.

"I Do", Sjohnna McCray Poem at The Spectrum

"The Widower", Sjohnna McCray Poem at Valparaiso Poetry Review

"The Nurse and the Lights" and "Father as Jellyfish", Sjohnna McCray Poems at Project Muse (Published in Southern Review)

Bess Cooley, "Review: Sjohnna McCray's "Rapture'" at Sycamore Review, April 4, 2016

"Review: 'Rapture' by Sjohnna McCray" at Ploughshares Blog, April 17, 2016