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The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Ladies’ Abecedary by Arden Levine

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This selection, chosen by Guest Leslie Rzeznik, is from Ladies' Abecedary by Arden Levine, released by Small Harbor Publishing in 2021.

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talks about fluid breathing,
				how she has aligned the motion
		of arms and neck and mouth
				to manage the human need
for oxygen. She was born
				with webbed fingers that catch handfuls
		of current and pull her through.
				She: one more wave.
She waves. She comes
				back slick and glinting, flicks
		her toes. She runs again
				into open water, and her gait
slows not from contact with water
		but because she has arrived.

Arden Levine’s debut chapbook, Ladies’ Abecedary (Harbor Editions, 2021), was included in CLMP’s 2022 Reading List for Women’s History Month. Her poems and other writing have appeared in American Life in Poetry (selected by Ted Kooser), Barrow Street, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review’s Poem-of-the-Week, Poetry Society of America’s Song Cycle series, WNYC’s Radiolab, and elsewhere. Arden is a reviews writer for Green Linden Press, a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, and a New York City municipal employee; her daily work focuses on housing affordability, homelessness prevention, and equitable community development.

Leslie Rzeznik lives in southeast Michigan. She earned her BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan and won The Academy of American Poets prize in 2013. Her work has appeared in Alyss, Bone Bouquet, Sling Magazine, Willawaw Journal, and Bear River Review.

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