January Gill O’Neil

January Gill O’Neil is the author of four poetry collections, including Glitter Road. A Cave Canem fellow, she teaches at Salem State University and in the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English summer program. She is a former chair and current member of the AWP Board of Directors.

Poetry – Issue 38

The River Remembers

Here the water is silt-brown, / stretches mile-wide, / flat as a washed-out conveyor belt, / an unhemmed rumble strip.

Poetry – Issue 26

Three people in flamenco costumes look dejected on a beach.

•The Night I Wore the Purple Dress

I was Chambord floating / in bubbles of Prosecco. I was /a scallop wrapped in bacon. / Sleeveless, with seams that contoured / and material that breathed. . . .