KATHRYN HARGETT-HSU
Kathryn Hargett-Hsu is the author of Good Listener (2024), winner of the Frontier Poetry Breakthrough Chapbook Contest. She is Senior Poetry Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. Find her in Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Pleiades, The Hopkins Review, Sixth Finch, swamp pink, The Margins, and elsewhere.
Sometimes I hallucinate God
is a monarchic bloodstain
down the front of my shirt.
I don’t think a poem has to answer every question it poses—in fact, I think it’s wonderful to have a little mystery and ambiguity—but I don’t like unproductive confusion.
June 9, 2024