Sheila L. Carter-Jones is the author of Three Birds Deep, winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Book Award, and her chapbook Crooked Star Dream Book was named Honorable Mention for the New York Center for Book Arts Chapbook Contest. She is a fellow of Cave Canem, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and a Walter Dakin Fellow of the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She was born and raised in a small coal mining town in Western Pennsylvania which is the site for many of her poems. Her poetry has been published in various journals, anthologies and newspapers. Sheila received her MFA from Carlow University where she currently teaches in their Madwomen in the Attic Program. Her book Every Hard Sweetness is forth coming from BOA Editions, Ltd. in the spring of 2024.
Four Shorts
Four Shorts 1.organic green(for Pat who died too young)when you come back you will leada flock of mallards through novice blueno more brown speckled plumagecourting distorted imagesin stagnant pond water your glossy bottle-green head will burnthe wind jealous-amber as alwaysyour wild feathers so fowllight will follow you 2.Construction Worker(about an eighth grade girl) She could …