• Elizabeth Metzger, M.F.A.

    Elizabeth Metzger is the author of Lying In, as well as The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook Bed. Her poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Nation, and Poem-a-Day. Her essays have been published in Boston Review, Guernica, Conjunctions, PN Review, and Literary Hub, among others. She is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Do Not Revise

The suicide note reads I didn’t do this Life took my Inever finished Imagine the relief of sleeping together aftera year apartthen the great disappoint of wa...