Susan Blackwell Ramsey

Susan Blackwell Ramsey’s work has appeared, among other places, in The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Best American Poetry, and the splendid Ecotone. Her book, a Mind Like This, won the Raz-Shumaker Prize from Prairie Schooner and she has enjoyed residencies at The Vermont Studio Center and MacDowell. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Poetry – Issue 37

September Lament after an August Away

The chipmunks have eaten my first Brandywines, / the New Girls all clustering thick on their vines / are riddled with holes and are hanging like rags. . . .

Poetry – Issue 32

•Garden Tip

When a rose, a shrub, a tree / looks dead in spring, the policy / I follow is my mother’s Let it be.

Poetry – Issue 23

September Lament after an August Away

•Garden Tip

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