Andrea Werblin Reid

Biography

Andrea Werblin Reid (1965 – 2022) is the author of Lullaby for One Fist (Wesleyan UP, 2001) and Sunday with the Sound Turned Off (Lost Horse, 2014). She was a finalist for Missouri Review’s Perkoff Prize and had work published in the Massachusetts Review, Pank, and Smartish Pace. In her last three years, Werblin Reid wrote more than one hundred poems–including these–about living with terminal ovarian cancer.

See Work

POETRY / Winter 2023

Trying to Meditate

By Andrea Werblin Reid

each day you wake wishing that what is, is not, and that’s no way to live.

POETRY / Winter 2023

Expectancy

By Andrea Werblin Reid

the owl refuses to dispense any wisdom
but has a few questions of its own:

POETRY / Winter 2023

Driving While Grateful

By Andrea Werblin Reid

the ogre of gratitude dangling like a chandelier from the rearview mirror asks if
you know how lucky you are, if you’ve meditated on that yet, if your heart

POETRY / Winter 2023

Clinical Trial

By Andrea Werblin Reid

in exchange for a public chance at a longer private life, you give them
not your body, but your body’s one error in calculation. the swerve,