Stevie Howell

Stevie Howell is a poet, critic, and editor. Her poetry was shortlisted for the 2013 Montreal International Poetry Prize and the 2012 Walrus Poetry Prize. Stevie's first full-length poetry collection is forthcoming in fall 2014 from Ice House Press, an imprint of Goose Lane Editions. She is the author of the forthcoming pamphlet Looting the Museum (November 2013) and two previous chapbooks, Ringsend and Royal (2012).

A Gospel

That picture’s somewhere still: First Communion, 13 girls
in lace and satin “Like a Virgin” frocks,
legs crossed man-style under frills, floral hairpieces
           hanging flaccid over ears. Marrying...