Betsy Sholl
author of eight collections of poetry; Poet Laureate of Maine (2006-2011); and winner of the Maine Literary Award for Poetry; her work has appeared in Field, Triquarterly, Brilliant Corners, the Kenyon Review, the Massachusetts Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal
excerpt from “Philomela"
What is a story but a nest, and what is a nest.
but a vessel made for breakage and flight?
Those girls were not made for the story
they had to tell. But tell it they did.
Out of such troubled bodies, a shattered song,
out of the thicket, pouring forth.
from House of Sparrows: New and Selected Poems by Betsy Sholl (University of Wisconsin Press)