From How Swallowtails Become Dragons by Bianca Spriggs. The full text is available here.
More from Bianca Spriggs:
- Bianca Spriggs’ blog
- “Practice Round”
- An Interview with Bianca Spriggs (Part 1) (Part 2)
- Writing Challenge: “Below the Surface”
- Bianca Spriggs on Accents Radio (8/16/13)
Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem Fellow Bianca Spriggs is a freelance instructor of composition, literature, and creative writing. She holds degrees fromTransylvania University and the University of Wisconsin. She is a Kentucky Humanities Council Lecturer and the creator and programmer of the Wild Women of Poetry Slam (formerly the Gypsy Poetry Slam) featured annually at theKentucky Women Writers Conference. Heralded as “the new standard bearer for the Affrilachian Poets” by founding member Frank X Walker, Bianca is the author of Kaffir Lily (Wind Publications) and her work may also be found in the anthologies New Growth: Recent Kentucky Writings and America! What’s My Name? and the journals Union Station Magazine, Appalachian Heritage Magazine, and others.
