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Vela, Teri
By Teri Vela

she/her

Superstition Sonnet

Poetry

Teri Vela’s “Superstition Sonnet” invites readers to dispense with everything they think they know about the sonnet. It is not the rules of a form, but the warp and weft of intergenerational violence and prevailing softness that tethers these intricate lines together into a powerful reverse origin story.

The header image was created by Natasha Loewy and Owen Takabayashi, featured artists for the On Permanence anthology.

Author’s note: The last line of the poem is from my #1 favorite Douglas Kearney lecture #WEREWOLFGOALS.

Vela, Teri
Teri Vela

Teri Vela is a poet, witch, and mother, born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada (a city standing on Southern Paiute traditional lands). She is the first generation of her family born in the US, and a former public interest attorney. Her publications include poetry in Honey Literary Journal, Witch Craft Magazine, Gordon Square Review and more. She is a reader for Split Lip Magazine and a former managing editor with The Seventh Wave. Her favorite food is mango in all forms: sour, sweet, spicy, unripe, sticky with rice, and so on. She is an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson College.

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