Ana Maria Spagna

Ana Maria Spagna is the author of several books including Uplake, Reclaimers, and Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus. Her poems have appeared in Bellingham Review, Pilgrimage, North Dakota Quarterly, Split Rock Review, and What Rough Beast. She lives in the North Cascades of Washington State.

Poetry – Issue 30

Winter Hen

Seventeen hens, two ducks, a goose, all prime / laying age, well fed and warm. But when you check the coop / on the coldest day of the year // only one sits on eggs. . . .

New Nature Writers – Issue 19

•Hope Without Hope

On the banks of a soda spring in the Sierra Nevadas, a writer witnesses a Maidu ceremony to heal a clearcut mountainside.