Author: Deirdre Lockwood

Deirdre Lockwood has a master’s in creative writing from Boston University, and her poetry has appeared in journals including The Threepenny Review, Yale Review, and Poetry Northwest. She spent a year in Iceland as a Fulbright fellow, and won a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. She is currently working on her first novel as a writing fellow at Richard Hugo House in Seattle.

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Performative control and vulnerability

Deirdre Lockwood, Mud Season Review author

Rebecca Starks interviews
Deirdre Lockwood
 

Our editor-in-chief, Rebecca Starks, recently spoke with Deirdre Lockwood, our Issue #7 featured poet. Here’s what she had to say about the inspiration behind her poems, the novel she is working on, and the relationship between her work as a scientist and her work as a writer. ….Read more

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Poetry

Poetry Issue #7

Before the Funeral

by Deirdre Lockwood
 
 

The orange juice is grey. My father keeps
calling me Mary. (His youngest sister’s name.)
Every five minutes the newsprint swirls
beneath his eyes. We look away, out
the kitchen windows to the aftertaste
of snow along the sidewalk. Gravel, rock
salt, and the rust-edged grass between the cracks…
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