(with lines from W.S. Merwin) Where has it gonenever was there one step backward,though there were moments I...
Susan Cohen
Because Everything Now Is Violence
My friend suggests one thing then another. And isn’t that how it begins, the gospelof naming one thing then...
Susan Cohen was an award-winning science writer, contributing writer to the Washington Post Magazine, and faculty-member at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism before earning an MFA from Pacific University. She’s the author of Democracy of Fire (2022) and two previous full-length collections. Her poetry has appeared in 32 Poems, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Southern Review, Verse Daily, and won the Red Wheelbarrow Prize, Terrain Annual Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize Special Mention. She lives in Berkeley. www.susancohen-writer.com