Andrea Potos

photo by Michael Slater

CONTACT

608-238-8013

Andrea Potos
Madison, Wisconsin

BIO

Andrea Potos' poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies, including Women's Review of Books, The Sun, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Green Mountains Review, Greensboro Review, Calyx Journal, Southern Poetry Review, Rosebud, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, Atlanta Review, Cairn, Women, Period (Spinsters Ink), Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry (Beacon Press), A Fierce Brightness (Calyx Books) Mothers & Daughters: A Poetry Celebration (Random House), and I Feel A Little Jumpy Around You (Simon & Schuster). Her collection of poems titled Yaya's Cloth received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association. She is also the recipent of the James Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review, and the Sow's Ear Review Poetry Prize.

PUBLICATIONS

Yaya's Cloth, Iris Press, 2007 - $14.00 (softcover), $24.00 (hardcover)
The Perfect Day, Parallel Press, 1999 - $10.00

BOOKINGS

2010

February
Featured reader at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art February 5th at 6:30 PM, and on February 7th, reading at 2:00 at Avol's Bookstore as part of the Winter Festival of Poets, and on February 12th at 6:30 PM, reading at A Room of One's Own Annual Love & Lust Poetry and Song evening all in Madison

POEM

EACH SELF

My six-year-old daughter stares into the purpling
copper sky and names it dusk, a just-learned word
she is happy to declare, comparing it to evening
and afternoon. We talk of how the earth turns away
from the sun each night,
a motion so encompassing,
our bodies cannot know it.
I don¹t tell her how the child
part of me still disbelieves it--that this globe
actually spins while we breathe, while my daughter
changes invisibly before my eyes,

her infant body submerged inside her
with her toddler waddle and her four-year-old skip,
each swallowed within the other
like the nesting dolls she keeps
on her new desk, each self
perfectly preserved, forsaken
for the one that must come after.

Published in North American Review and Yaya's Cloth, Iris Press, 2007.

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