The Brontë Skirt

The last issue of Prairie Schooner (a US quarterly of fiction, poetry, essay and review edited by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) contains a poem by Andrea Potos devoted to the Brontës:

Prairie Schooner
Volume 80, Number 4, Winter 2006

Potos, Andrea, 1959-
The Bronte Skirt, and: Crocheting the Shawl

This is not the first (or the second) time that Andrea Protos composes poems inspired by, or dedicated to, the Brontës. This is a sample of a previous poem of her, published in Poetry East:

TO EMILY BRONTË

Eleven years old and sunk in the red velveteen
chair at the Fox Bay Theater, I absorbed
the raw sculpture of Penistone Crag,
bracken and gorse, the peat
blanketing the Yorkshire moors. Heathcliff
with his sea-green eyes, black cape swirled
around him, how tall and alarmingly
handsome he looked. (Read more)

Note: The magazine cover corresponds to the Fall 2006 Issue. The most recent one it is not yet on the magazine's web.

Categories: Emily Brontë, Journals, Poetry