"Drinking Game" by Laura Shovan

JUNE 2024

Drinking Game

Is your glass full? Take a shot
for
Be'eri,
Rafah.
Drink
for
every
life
lost,
for
your glass is full. Take a shot.

6/15/2024

Laura Shovan is Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and children’s author. Books include Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone (Harriss Poetry Prize), The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, Takedown, and A Place at the Table, written with Saadia Faruqi. Some of Shovan's recent poems have been published in Gargoyle, Greening the Earth, and Innisfree Poetry Journal. She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

(Photo by Linda Joy Burke)