Emily Skaja is the author of BRUTE, winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets (Graywolf, 2019). Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. She is the founding editor of the Poetry Prompt Generator, an online resource for poets and educators, and she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis.

POETRY

"I Liked Myself Better as an Exquisite Skeleton" and "Black Lake"

By EMILY SKAJA

I think I was waiting for someone to tell me / whether this would be a comeback story.