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Elizabeth Macklin

Elizabeth Macklin is the author of the poetry collections A Woman Kneeling in the Big City and You’ve Just Been Told, and is the translator of the Basque poet Kirmen Uribe’s Meanwhile Take My Hand, among other works. She is currently at work on a third book of poems.

Articles

Poetry
It could be he, it could be she,
it could be this or that,

dis or dat, some say back there.
Elizabeth Macklin
Elizabeth Macklin
By Anne Carson.
Elizabeth Macklin

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