Flensing
Body, I want to be polite and remember the quaint concepts: modesty, womanhood, prayer. I know these old phylogenies of shame. You still feel them, something I refuse to acknowledge. I think this split between…
Bellingham Review Contributor
Gabriella Graceffo is a PhD student at the University of Montana pursuing an interdisciplinary degree in English and Psychology. This interdisciplinary work focuses on the representation of trauma in literature, specifically in the work of bisexual women, through a critical and creative project of research and lyric essays. Before her doctoral work, she received her MFA in Poetry and MA in Literature from the University of Montana. She works as Managing Editor of Poetry Northwest and is the recipient of the Robinson Goedicke Scholarship, Ridge Scholarship, Richter Fellowship, and Ann Early Award. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Poets & Writers, Rattle, Autofocus, Cordite, and others. You can find her curled up with her two cats in snowy Missoula, Montana.
Body, I want to be polite and remember the quaint concepts: modesty, womanhood, prayer. I know these old phylogenies of shame. You still feel them, something I refuse to acknowledge. I think this split between…