Cold Turnpikes

by Clarissa Adkins

This piece is part of our Winter 2022 print issue, available for purchase here.

Clarissa Adkins

Clarissa Adkins had her first poetry book, Building Alexandria, published by Lily Poetry Review Books in April of 2021. Her work also appears in Smartish Pace, The Pinch, Whurk Magazine, River City Poets’ anthology: Lingering in the Margins, and more. She enjoys reading for Sugar House Review and received her M.F.A. in poetry from Lesley University in 2018. When she’s not writing, you can usually find her teaching high school English.

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