Heather Treseler, first place winner of Narrative’s Fifteenth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of Auguries & Divinations, recipient of the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, and Parturition, winner of an international chapbook award from the Munster Literature Centre in Ireland and a Jean Pedrick Prize from the New England Poetry Club. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Notre Dame, she is professor of English at Worcester State University and a resident scholar at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center.



FIRST PLACE WINNER


Postscript

by Heather Treseler
The analyst asked, why these dreams of birds?
These voices of women in flight?


Is it because you cannot bear a child? No, I said.
I see now that motherhood is not required


to speak a mother tongue. A lover tongue. Tongue
freed from ways in which a woman
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