Nights with Almanzo, Days

Maggie Schwed is the author of the chapbook Out of Season (Finishing Line Press, 2008). Her poems have appeared in Western Humanities Review , Witness , Raritan , Nimrod , Commonweal , Pleiades , and Barrow Street , among other journals. Schwed was a finalist for the 2009 Morton Marr Poetry Prize. She lives in New York where she writes reviews for Pleiades and Smartish Pace. Photo by Charles Laskowski