Anne Haven McDonnell

Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and teaches creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. A 2023 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, she is the author of Breath on a Coal, winner of the Halycon Poetry Prize from Middle Creek Press, and the chapbook Living with Wolves, from Split Rock Press.

Poetry – Issue 36

The cover of Issue 36, featuring a linoleum block print of rays swimming in the ocean.

Moraine

Some kinds of apocalypse / hide in pockets—rubble / blinking in the sunlight / where the glacier melted back.

Climate Annotations – Issue 32

•Singing Inside a Tree

As mountain pine beetles descend on drought-stressed western forests, a poet remembers a sheltering Douglas fir, and listens for the sounds of climate crisis inside a beetle-infested piñon tree.