Author Archives: Xandria Phillips

Xandria Phillips is the author of Reasons For Smoking, which won the 2016 Seattle Review chapbook contest judged by Claudia Rankine. She hails from rural Ohio, and inherited her grandmother’s fear of open water. Xandria is the poetry editor for Honeysuckle Press and the curator of Love Letters to Spooks. You can find her poetry in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Journal, Nashville Review, Ninth Letter, The Offing, and elsewhere.

Arts & Soul

Black Body As Told By The Stirrups

by Xandria Phillips February 18, 2019September 16, 2020

Do you remember
when we met How no drugs were administered
How the hands that opened you were cold
and soiled How the unsurgical steel slid
you open easy as an envelope