DAY 18 *JESSICA SMITH * JANE HIRSHFIELD *

JESSICA SMITH'S second book is forthcoming from Chax Press. She works as a poet-librarian and dreams of the ocean in land-locked Birmingham, Alabama, where the trains sound like whales.Jessica reads her poem  "Saskia, Rembrandt (1636)" (unpublished, ekphrastic based on this.

Jessica reads JANE HIRSHFIELD's poem which is known by two titles, one of which is "For the Lichens" (published in 2011 by The Atlantic) and one of which is in the Ecopoetry Anthology as "For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches' Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen."