Rita Mookerjee is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Worcester State University. In 2020, she was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the author of False Offering (JackLeg 2023). Her poems can be found in CALYX, Copper Nickel, New Orleans Review, the Offing, and Poet Lore. She serves as an editor at Split Lip Magazine, Sundress Publications, and Honey Literary.

WIT TEA

Voicemail For Emily Dickinson

By RITA MOOKERJEE

But you know what? Plenty of us were listening.

POETRY

The Stranger’s Guide to Brothels of Philadelphia, 1849

By RITA MOOKERJEE

but when you are not visiting they amuse
one another even more
you wouldn’t believe it stranger
the things of which these women are capable