Elisabeth Murawski, Author at Consequence Forum

Elisabeth is the author of Heiress, which received The Poetry Society of Virginia Book Award 2018, Zorba’s Daughter, which won the May Swenson Poetry Award, Moon and Mercury, and two chapbooks. Recent publications include The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, and The Carolina Quarterly. Her poem, “Duplex,” won the 2019 Ledbury Poetry Festival Poetry Competition. A native of Chicago, she currently lives in Alexandria, VA.

July Morning

by Elisabeth Murawski | Feb 18, 2019 | Poetry

I wake to dark sky and heavy rain equal in an hour to 30 inches of snow. The emergency signal blares on the radio.Flash floods.People strandedon roofs of cars.Stay off the roads! House-bound, I pick upwhere I left offin Remarque, his bookabout the...