Kate Waldman was born in Washington, DC, and received a BA in English literature from Yale University. She won a Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for poetry in 2008 and Yale’s Theron Rockwell Field Prize in 2010. In addition, her first published poem, “Afterword,” won First Place in Narrative’s Second Annual Poetry Contest. She lives in DC.


FIRST PLACE WINNER


Afterword

by Kate Waldman

And what became of them all. Summers,
we slung sandwiches and a bottle
in a basket, drove six miles
to the rustling field.
Trees peeled, slivered, carted away
long before our parents were born.

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