About
Poetry
Rae Hoffman Jager is the author of American Bitch (Kelsay Books ‘22) Rae's poetry has appeared in a wide variety of online and print magazines: Atticus, Contrary, The Moth, Honey Lit—to name a few. She has work forthcoming in New York Quarterly. Additionally Rae was named one of the ‘22 Emerging Artist Fellows for the Ish Festival in Cincinnati. Rae holds a BA from Warren Wilson College and an MFA from Wichita State University. When she is not writing, publishing, and teaching yoga, she is spending time with her spouse, daughter Ivy, and two old dogs.
“There’s nothing I can say about coal barges
and their long marriage to rivers
that hasn’t already been said,
like water is beautiful and necessary
and every barge is a woman floating
face down in a steel dress, carrying on
her back whatever people leave there.”
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