SWWIM sustains and celebrates women poets by connecting creatives across generations and by curating a living archive of contemporary poetry, while solidifying Miami as a nexus for the literary arts.

After Waking with Asthma, I Sit on the Porch

 

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Tracey Knapp lives in the California Bay Area. Her first collection of poems, Mouth, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award and was published in 2015. Recent work appears in Cream City Review, The Pinch, New Ohio Review, Five Points, The Shore, and elsewhere.

 

The Binary Catalogue of Loss

This Will Be Your Fortune Long After I Can Tell You