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Celeste Schantz

Celeste Schantz’s poems appear in Stone Canoe, Writers Resist, Mud Season Review, One Throne Magazine and other journals. She was recently a finalist in Fugue Literary Journal’s annual writing contest, and her first essay is forthcoming in their Spring ’19 issue. She has poetry forthcoming in two anthologies, one through AROHO and one on poetry about autism. She has studied with the poet and author Marge Piercy. Schantz works for the public library. She lives with her teenaged son in Upstate New York, where she supports his differently-abled schooling and inclusion programs and champions autism rights. She’s currently writing her first book of poems.

By Celeste Schantz

at the department of social services

by Celeste Schantz

We sit in the failure factories; we, the apparition of working mothers clutching our utility shut-off notices. This form says provide proof of your destitution, please summarize your poverty please add emotional abuses in these two lines please multiply by the darkness of the members of your household; keep your faces down, fill out the

Summer 2018

The Woman on Court Street Bridge

by Celeste Schantz

En Plein Air, Summer Beyond these muggy river catacombs in afternoon another mother sinks down in despair: Spill over, spill over Now my only son is gone She howls down phantoms from the sultry air. On moss-wet stone two little girls are watching; the vapor chills; heat hovers like a prayer as something plummets deep

Summer 2018

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