excerpts from Investigative Commentary Postmortem from the Dead to the Youngest Sister (“you,” “your,” “yours”)
Lines 9-11 in “Sad Goodness of Your Motherhood” were taken from "One Gene Found to Command Many Others to Build a Wing." Kirsten A. Guss and Craig. E. Nelson, lead authors; Angela Hudson, Mary Ellen Kraus, and Sean Carroll, co-authors, University of Wisconsin-Madison Science Daily. Science Daily, 2 May 2001.
Theresa Senato Edwards has published two full-length poetry books, one, with painter Lori Schreiner, which won The Tacenda Literary Award for Best Book, and two chapbooks. Poems from her newest manuscript, Fragments of Wing Bones, can be found in Stirring, Gargoyle, The Nervous Breakdown, Thrush, Diode, Dialogist, 3Elements Review, SWWIM, Harbor Review, Verse Daily, The Shore Poetry, PANK, here at The Hunger, and other fine journals. Edwards was nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, once recently for a Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions Anthology, received creative writing residencies from Drop Forge & Tool and Craigardan, is a poetry editor for The American Poetry Journal and was a poetry mentor for the Summer 2020 COUNTERCLOCK Arts Collective. Her website: theresasenatoedwards.com