Christy Wise

Christy Wise’s poetry chapbook, Tangible Terrain, was published by Finishing Line Press, April 2024. Her poems and essays appear in Red Flag Poetry, Bayou Magazine, The Dewdrop, among other journals. “Tony’s Cocoon” was a finalist in the Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize. “Memory Book” was a notable essay in Best American Essays of 2010.

To my great-grandfather

By Christy Wise / September 21, 2024

Did you know how much Mom loved you? Looked to you, her compass. Wanted to hug […]

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Did you know how much Mom loved you? Looked to you, her compass. Wanted to hug

Burnished Sky

By Christy Wise / September 20, 2024

Fire is westburns through tangerine cloudseggplant streaks of cloudscallstretchgrasplast fragments of day. South AfricaBrazilhere I come.

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Fire is westburns through tangerine cloudseggplant streaks of cloudscallstretchgrasplast fragments of day. South AfricaBrazilhere I come.