Carolyn Stice joined me on the show today. Carolyn graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks M.F.A. program. She shared her poetry and some of her favorite pieces by contemporary female poets including Gwendolyn Brooks and Anne Sexton.
Carolyn Stice was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study poetry written by Venezuelan women. She leaves the first of September with her new husband Jake.
Here is one of the poems Carolyn shared with our audience:
Honeysuckle Vine
The girl stands contemplating the honey
on her lips, her hand reaches among bees
who work flower to flower, she squeezes
another bloom on her tongue. A noise from
the house drowns the bee's private humming, draws
the girl back. Now she considers branches,
touching each one with her fore-finger and
thumb. Too thick and she may as well have picked
the belt, too thin and the whipping cord breaks
the skin. She chooses something in between
and turns then, back to the house, last week's welts
red as a tattoo down her butt and thighs,
stinging ever so slightly as she walks.
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