Emma Aylor

Emma Aylor is the author of Close Red Water, winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in New England ReviewAGNIPoetry NorthwestThe Yale ReviewPoetry Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in Nacogdoches, Texas, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stephen F. Austin State University.

  • Slaughtered Ox

    Too easy, to take the body as a distraction—