Burton, Joshua: Fracture Anthology

Ethel (chapbook) 2022//limited edition 100 copiesComes with a QR code for Audio Book version. JOSHUA BURTON is a poet and educator from Houston, TX and received his MFA in poetry at Syracuse University. He is a 2019 Tin House Winter Workshop Scholar, 2019 Juniper Summer Writing Institute scholarship winner, 2019 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics fellowship finalist, received the Honorable Mention for the 2018 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize and was a 2020 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing finalist. His work can be found in Mississippi Review, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Conduit, TriQuarterly, Black Warrior Review, Grist, and Indiana Review. His debut poetry collection is forthcoming in the spring of 2023 with the University of Wisconsin Press. from Fracture Anthology Heard  I.  when writing in my mother’s voice: two pulls earthing usaway from one another. the horses attached to a single body, each limbpulled away— seeing through to herthrougha muggy de