About Karin Gottshall

Karin Gottshall was a recent writer-inresidence at Interlochen Arts Academy. Her poems have appeared in Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Black Warrior Review, and Shenandoah. Her manuscript, Crocus, won the Poets Out Loud Prize and will be published by Fordham University Press in 2007. Gottshall lives in Middlebury, Vermont, and works at the Middlebury College library.

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The Exile’s Tale

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The country I come from is far to the north:
our wedding dresses are lined with wolf’s fur and the stars
are fixed. We share the dwellings of white bears,
who never wake from their winter sleep,

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