Jan Beatty’s fifth book, Jackknife: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), won the 2018 Paterson Prize. The Huffington Post called her one of ten “advanced women poets for required reading.” She worked as an abortion counselor, in maximum-security prisons, and directs the creative writing program at Carlow University.
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It’s hot in the loading bridge,
hot in the birth canal,
it’s hot in the striped boy’s heart –
we’re two women driving to D.C. for an abortion
in my beater sea-green Le Ma…
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