Adrie Rose

Poetry

Adrie Rose lives next to an orchard in western MA and is the editor of Nine Syllables Press. Her chapbook Rupture is forthcoming with Gold Line Press in 2023, and she has a micro chap forthcoming in 2023 with Porkbelly Press. She is a Poetry MFA student at Warren Wilson College. Her work has previously appeared in Nimrod, The Night Heron Barks, Underblong, Witness, and more. She won the Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize, the Ethel Olin Corbin Prize, and the Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize in 2021, and the Anne Bradstreet Prize, the Eleanor Cederstrom Prize, and the Mary Augusta Jordan Prize in 2022. Find her on Instagram @adrierose_

Diagnosis Summer

Diagnosis Summer

and how many summer days did I say, I will harvest the wild rose tomorrow or the tomatoes or the calendula surely there will be another chance meanwhile the bees never hesitated to take exactly what was being given and I came back to the fields empty and left the same.

“ I love long expansive poems, but I also truly love brief poems that are more like tiny glimpses or flashes. In a summer that was filled with doctors and appointments, I found both solace in the plants around me and also an echo of my own longing and grief. ”

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