Amanda North

Amanda North is a writer and educator based in Texas. She holds a BA from University of Texas at El Paso and an MFA-Poetry from Texas State University. She lectures in the English Department and Honors College at Texas State University. Amanda has poems published or forthcoming in The Open Bar at Tin House, The Learned Pig, and Yew Journal.

Root Mapping15 April, 2020<21 May, 2020

Earth Turned Honey

Moksha The desert has no memory. Sun beats on its chest, collarbone glistens: I wait for rain, an angry sea filling the sky…

Wolf Crossing, Writing20 May, 2017<22 May, 2017

Borders

On the Eve we eat menudo. Onion mimics moon from a small bowl, glinted fractals of itself. Cilantro’s diced flesh lingers in the…

Wolf Crossing, Writing20 May, 2017<20 May, 2017

Rooting

. . . . . . . . . .Chihuahua Desert Blood slid to soil and our roots splintered wide like needle-edged…

Wolf Crossing, Writing20 May, 2017<30 June, 2017

How to Make a Map for Ethnic Cleansing

. . . . . . . . . .an elegy Demark colored lines fluid as the Red sea and place names…

Clean Unclean, Nature10 May, 2015<11 May, 2015

Inca Doves

Is it odd to say I thought of you as I pulled a dead dove from the swimming pool? Spine up to God,…