Wyatt says this poem was as tricky to write as a villanelle. Her work has been read on NPR, featured in “American Life in Poetry,” and published in journals including New Letters, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review. Her latest book of poems, Rewriting the Body, was hailed by Nimrod International Journal as “required reading for lovers of poetry.”

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Wyatt Townley

Wyatt Townley is Poet Laureate of Kansas Emerita, and her most recent book of poems is “Rewriting the Body.” Her work has been read on NPR, featured in “American Life in Poetry,” and published widely in journals from “The Paris Review” to “Newsweek.”

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