Claire Wahmanholm

Sep 1, 2024 | hcn.org | Claire Wahmanholm

Try entering the maze another way. It isn’t wrongto want a different ending. All those women understood;all those schoolchildren; all those mink trying to get from one placeto a gentler one, or just moving for the sake of it, just getting along. We don’t want to think of horses and see a team of them waiting to pull a single body into four. We want the drill to bea drill, we want it to be like playing hide-and-seek, or like skatingfor the breeze of it.

Oct 18, 2023 | poets.org | Emily Luan |Claire Wahmanholm |Arthur Sze

OOnce there was an opening, an operation: out of which oared the ocean, then oyster and oystercatcher, opal and opal-crowned tanager. From ornateness came the ornate flycatcher and ornate fruit dove. From oil, the oilbird. O is for opus, the Orphean warbler’s octaves, the oratorio of orioles. O for the osprey’s ostentation, the owl and its collection of ossicles. In October’s ochre, the orchard is overgrown with orange and olive, oleander and oxlip. Ovals of dew on the oatgrass.

Mar 9, 2023 | largeheartedboy.com | Claire Wahmanholm

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Claire Wahmanholm intensely connects ecological existence with the personal in her poetry collection Meltwater.