Community Anthologies: 2023, On Permanence
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.

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


Edited by Briana Gwin.
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