Birthmarks: Poems

By Whitney Rio-Ross

Hagar raises her son across an unwelcoming border. Bathsheba tries to erase her trauma. Another breakup haunts the woman at the well.
The poems in Birthmarks contemporize women of the Old and New Testaments and consider who they might be today. Drawing on history, subtext, and common female experiences, they reimagine these characters and their narratives, daring readers to meet the women of the Bible anew.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Release date: Mar 12, 2020
• ISBN: 9781725261747

Whitney Rio-Ross

Whitney Rio-Ross writes and teaches English in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband. Her poetry has appeared in America Magazine, Gravel, Rock & Sling, So to Speak, The Windhover, and elsewhere.

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Birthmarks

Poems

Whitney Rio-Ross

Birthmarks

Poems

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for my mother

Unto the woman he said,

I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;

in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire

shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

—Genesis 3:16

And the angel came in unto her, and said,

Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee:

blessed art thou among women . . . Fear not, Mary:

for thou hast