Selected
Poems
Books
Community
Abandon
your despair, you who enter here forsaken.
The wind is saying something. Listen.
—Kim Addonizio
Fiction & Poetry
T.R. Poulson
My town straddles
Forgotten River. The Main street trestle,
broken by storms. It’s a mystery where
the butcher finds his prey. The nearest
ranch, four hundred miles away.
—from Poets Speaking to Poets
and Best New Poets, 2022
Branded
T.R. Poulson is currently seeking a publisher for her first poetry manuscripts, tentatively titled Broken Feasts, Broken Forms and Branded.
Excerpt:
Signs and fliers appeared everywhere that night: on bulletin boards, in mailboxes, attached to trees. They showed a vague composite drawing–because he always wore a mask–of a rapist. Three rapes on campus during the past four months, and strange discrepancies in the DNA evidence. Printed on bright paper, they added to the colors of spring. At the party, girls drank. The rapist faded into the background.
Elaine found herself playing strip poker. Clothes came off.
published in J Journal
Signs Attached to Trees
I am a social writer. I don’t believe in writing by myself in a little box. Writing is about community. Reading and sharing.
Here are some works that I love:
Poems
High Desert, New Mexico – Kim Addonizio
Her Kind – Anne Sexton
Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be The Same – Robert Frost
Asphodel – A. E. Stallings
Story Problems - Gailmarie Pahmeier
How to Triumph Like a Girl – Ada Limon
Batter My Heart, Three-Person’d God – John Donne
Stories
Waste – Christopher Coake
The Wind – Lauren Groff
Recoveries – Susan Palwick
The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
A for Alone – Curtis Sittenfeld
Get In Touch
Email TR Poulson: tr@trpoulson.com
This is me. I’ve always loved to hand people things to read!
