Lenna Mendoza is a poet from Texas living in Tucson, Arizona. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, Quarterly West, Passages North, Four Way Review, Foglifter, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi.
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My Innocence "I put you into this world, I can take you out" Mother-Daughter chorus of dogs Play Kitchen Recipe for Steak and Potatoes The Sphinx Polyfill, or Loss of Appetite Babble: As Lightning / As Thunder Because of the Rattling Ceiling Fan Advent "A child's brain is like a sponge" ELA Practice Test #3 Prodigy, or Mexicans at Rest Made in America Lessons on Domesticated Animals The Sleeper Trail Guide to the Body (3rd Edition) How Loudly "Place" Begins Placenta "Nothing I haven't seen before" Haunting with Open Mouth Monoculture The Body, a Circus Act Skateland The Miracle of Life (1983) Dead Girl's Float Eve's Sepulcher Womb Music You can't really clean the piercing gun at Claire's "Spare the rod, spoil the child" Nuclear Family as Overlook Hotel The Fates Riddle The Lice Intervene No Holds Barred Cage Match BOY FLOATS AWAY IN BALLOON Fontanelle When I Say Family Abolition Acknowledgments Notes