T ClearOver her lifetime, Seattle poet T. Clear has always wanted more pets than only cats, dogs, hamsters, gerbils, and goldfish. In 2017 she made the decision to become a backyard chicken wrangler when she acquired three hens; and over the course of the nxt five years, added threemore to her flock. Th is chicken obsession ended with their untimely demise in 2022 by an unidentified predator. Over the past 50 years, her work has appeared in many publications, including The American Journal of Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, Atlanta Review, Bayou, Bellingham Review, Cirque Journal, Common Ground Review, Crab Creek Review, Crannóg, Dunes Review, In Parentheses, Iron Horse Literary Review, Lily Poetry, The Mayo News, The Moth, Poetry Northwest, Raven Chronicles, Red Earth Review, The Rise UpReview, Scoundrel Time, Seattle Metro's Art and Poetry on Buses Project, Seattle Review, Sheila-Na-Gig Online, South Florida Poetry Journal, Tab Journal, Terrain.org, Thimble Literary Magazine, UCity Review, The Wax Paper, and What Rough Beast.She's a founder of Floating Bridge Press and currently is an associate editor for Bracken Magazine. Her full-length book, A House, Undone, winner of the 2020 Sally Albiso Award, is available from MoonPath Press. Visit her online at TClearPoet.com. Read More Read Less