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Welcome to Poetically Yours. Poetically Yours showcases poems by northern Illinois poets. This week’s segment highlights Susan Azar Porterfield.

I’m very sorry to have to tell you such a sad story — a short story from Jennifer Anne Moses collection The Man Who Loved His Wife.

Contributors’ Notes Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist. His poems and translations are featured or forthcoming in Poetry, AzonaL, Sara Backer’s first book of poetry, Such Luck (Flowstone Press, 2019), follows two poetry chapbooks: Scavenger Hunt (dancing girl press, 2018) and Bicycle Lotus (Left Fork, 2015). Her honors include the 2019 Plough Poetry Prize competition, eight Pushcart nominations, and fellowships from the Norton Island and Djerassi Resident Artists Pr...

Paul Nemser’s third book of poetry, A Thousand Curves, won the Editor’s Choice Award from Red Mountain Press and is forthcoming in April 2021. His book Taurus (2013) won the New American Poetry Prize. A chapbook, Tales of the Tetragrammaton, appeared from Mayapple Press in 2014. His poems appear widely in magazines. He lives with his wife Rebecca in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Harborside, Maine. His poem “For An Astronomer’s Daughter” can be found here. It appears in the Jan/Feb ...