Adriana Grant
train rings mumble an ocean, bumping octaves. a sink stops, over and over its O. before away. (underwhelm, underfull, underheard, undermuch, underdone.) a garage is an object in which to sink obsession. a wind, as good an excuse as any. always the bully of a new view. she digs to the next, empty belly and full want. the act of leaving: grainier than it appears.
Adriana Grant grew up in New Hampshire, studied with Kathryn Davis and Steven Millhauser at Skidmore College, and lived for many years in Seattle, where she was part of the experimental reading series, Subtext. Her poetry has been published in magazines like Diagram, Denver Quarterly, and LIT, and has appeared on Seattle Metro buses, Arlington, Massachusetts sidewalks, and the Adirondack Center for Writing, Saranac Lake, New York. Recently, her poetry was included in Three Hearts: A Cephalopod Anthology, edited by Sierra Nelson, The 2021 Poetry Marathon Anthology, edited by Cynthia Hernandez, and Somerville Open, an anthology of Somerville, Massachusetts writers, edited by Tanya Larkin.