The Mouth of the Anthill Is Learning to Write

Patricia Lockwood is the author of Balloon Pop Outlaw Black (Octopus Books). Her recent poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Tin House, The London Review of Books, AGNI, Gulf Coast, VQR, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Black Warrior Review, and other magazines. She lives in Florida. (updated 10/2012)