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Cindy Veach reads "Clothes Pins" by Jennifer Martelli

Poet and editor Cindy Veach
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Cindy Veach
Poet and editor Cindy Veach

In the poet's imagination, springed wooden pincers become tooth and nail

Cindy Veach is the author of Her Kind (CavanKerry Press), a finalist for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal and an IPPY Silver Medalist in poetry; Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts Center for the Book ‘Must Read’; and the chapbook Innocents (Nixes Mate). Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, Salamander and elsewhere. Cindy is the recipient of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize and the Samuel Allen Washington Prize. She is poetry co-editor of MER.

The poems Cindy is reading this week relate in one way or another to the theme of magic: the magic of joy, the magic of a child’s pretend play, the magic of the moon, the magic of a plant, the magic of a television show.

Learn more about Cindy by visiting her website.