Her Kind

Cindy Veach is the author of Gloved Against Blood and the chapbook Innocents. Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, Sugar House Review, The Journal, Salamander, Nimrod International Journal, Solstice Literary Magazine, and Poet Lore, among others.

“Her Kind, with its nod to Sexton’s dark fairy tale of sisterhood, is an essential book of our age, as women are once again endangered and marginalized, as we must equate silence with ‘trouble, / a brewing.’ These powerful portraits and tragic stories remind us—not only do people take selfies where women were murdered and convert dungeons into tourist traps—but ‘Some things are not // meant to be forgotten,’ and every woman, in order to survive, must conjure her strongest self. This is a stunning collection of poems.”

• I, WitchRose of Jericho Spectral EvidenceElizabeth Howe of SorrowsI Have Seen Women Manipulate Men with Just a Twitch of Their EyeRebecca Nurse of the AccusedIn the Snare of the DevilYou Are Witnessing the Single Greatest Witch Hunt in American Political HistoryDear MoonContradiction ExpressAt the ThresholdA Crazed, Crying Lowlife and a DogApparitionBlessed Teresa of Calcutta Declared a Saint Before Huge Crowd at the VaticanMargaret Scott of Children LostReasons You Might Have Been Accused of Being a Witch in 1692Tornado WarningOgreOur Lady of Perpetual CompassionPretending KindnessI, KikimoraOomancy Triggers Witch HuntMary of the Blessed InnocentI, CirceHe Damaged MeNo CollusionWife/WitchIn Search OfSuch a Nasty WomanWoman Climbs Statue of Liberty in ProtestPractice the Spell: DivorceI Filed for Divorce & Sundry Other Acts of Witchcraft ThereforeI, ChedipeWhat Bird Was ThatFor LeavingWatching the News in My Attorney’s Waiting RoomI Don’t Know. I Don’t KnowPoem the Day After Kavanaugh is Confirmed to the Highest Court in the LandGallows Project Team Verifies Site of Salem Witch Trials HangingsWitch Dungeon MuseumTrump Has Called the Investigation a Witch Hunt 84 TimesYou’ve Got to Deny, Deny and Push Back on These WomenObstruction of JusticeTaylor Swift Makes Forbes Power Women ListSpellHe Punishes Me with FlowersSettlementI, HecateNotesAcknowledgements