I was making a roast. The smell wafted from the kitchen into the living room, through the yellow curtains and into the sunlight. Bread warmed in the oven, and in my oven mitt, I managed to forget that I’d ever punched someone in the face. It seemed so long ago, I might not even have done it. I went…
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Arda Collins
Arda Collins is an American poet and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. 2Life Collins was born in New York. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and the University of Denver, where she received a Ph.D. in poetry.Her book It Is Daylight was selected by Louise Glück for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.She has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, New York University, and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer in Residence at Smith College. She lives in Western Massachusetts.Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker, jubilat, The American Poetry Review, A Public Space and Gutcult. 2Awards 2008 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competitio