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Belle Boggs

Belle Boggs is the author of The Gulf; The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood; and Mattaponi Queen, all from Graywolf Press. She is professor of English and director of the MFA program in creative writing at North Carolina State University and is also co-author, with Beatrice Allen, of the free newsletter Frog Trouble Times.

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A wide river with trees

•Unreliable Narrators

A mother and her daughter look closely at their home place, recording what true things they can about the Haw River, frogs, protest, and pollution in the age of climate crisis.

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In the Peanut Hospital

Waiting as her mother undergoes a mysterious surgery, an essayist ponders “female trouble,” infertility, and the shifting roles mothers and daughters play in each other’s lives.

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Imaginary Children

  It’s ten o’clock on a Tuesday morning in December, and I’m waiting to see a matinee performance of that holiday classic, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with twelve of my AP English students. The drama teacher is next to…