The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: "Anemochory" by Leah Silvieus

This selection comes from the poetry collection Anemochory, available from Hyacinth Girl Press. Order your copy here.

Leah Silvieus is the author of a chapbook, Anemochory (Hyacinth Girl Press), and the recipient of awards and fellowships from The American Academy of Poets, Kundiman, VONA, and US Poets in Mexico. Her work has appeared in Boxcar Poetry Review, The Collagist, and Four Way Review, among others, and has been a finalist for the Best of the Net Anthology. Her multimedia poetry projects have been featured at the O, Miami Poetry Festival; The Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City, MO.; and the Asian American Women Artists Association in San Francisco. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Miami.

Fox Frazier-Foley is author of two prize-winning poetry collections, Exodus in X Minor (Sundress Publications, 2014) and The Hydromantic Histories (Bright Hill Press, 2015), and editor of two anthologies, Political Punch (Sundress Publications, 2016) and Among Margins (Ricochet Editions, 2016). Her newest collection of poems, Like Ash in the Air After Something Has Burned, is forthcoming from Hyacinth Girl Press in early 2017. Fox is founding EIC of the indie-lit press Agape Editions, which is an imprint of Sundress Publications (a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization) dedicated to publishing literary works that engage with concepts of the mystical, ecstatic, interfaith/intercultural, and the Numinous. Fox was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Binghamton University, was honored with merit-based fellowships at Columbia University, where she earned an MFA, and was a Provost’s Fellow at the University of Southern California, where she was a founding member of the small press Ricochet Editions and earned a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing.