Isabel Duarte-Gray Isabel Duarte-Gray was born in Oakland, California and raised in a trailer in Kuttawa, Kentucky. She is the author of Even Shorn (Sarabande, 2021). Duarte-Gray earned her B.A. in English and Russian from Amherst College, and her PhD from Harvard University, where she studied Latinx literature, poetry, and ecocriticism.

Groom XII | Poetry

Isabel Duarte-Gray

if I go to heaven I want to ask is there such thing as a tasteful lawn ornament: how does one improve a grass rhombus to such hue as to declare oneself bound by contract to poison all surrounding flora until scott pruitt’s o-face leaks scott peterson’s crocodile tears a second question I’m saving is, when is pain real? does it require two persons: one to throe and one to...