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Raye Hendrix

Raye Hendrix (she/they) is a poet from Alabama. Her debut full-length poetry collection, "What Good Is Heaven," is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in 2024. Raye's work appears in American Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere.
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Eugene, OR, United States

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Selected work (4 publications)

Gasher Journal , 2023
Inside JokeThe joke goes like this: one day you’re young, and the next you’re looking up the names of birds.
Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, 2022
Five PoemsFrom "Apology-Ode to My Accent" sweetslow as sorghum vowels gorgeous peaches fuzzing in the mouth thick as a thicket of kudzu smooth as buttered grits bright hot iron of Birmingham soft without the g
Tupelo Quarterly, 2022
SyndromeEvery child I might have had is a knot on a long, coiled rope, red to the touch. Think of them like this, like the song: 99 red balloons.
Poetry Northwest
Let Not a Womanafter I’m caught with my fingers beneath her shirt at church skipping Sunday School I am sent to a Christ -based therapist with a self-proclaimed 77% dyke rehab success rate