We use cookies to improve our services and remember your choices for future visits. For more information see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Independent, Reader-Supported Publishing
Ellery Akers
Ellery Akers is a writer, artist, and naturalist who lives in Marin County, California. Her most recent book of poetry is Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance. She spends as much time as possible sitting in a camp chair in the wilderness, writing, drawing, and looking at birds.
Poetry
The Word That Is A Prayer
One thing you know when you say it: / all over the earth people are saying it with you; / a child blurting it out as the seizures take her, / a woman reciting it on a cot in a hospital.
April 2007
What Do You Think?
Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
SEND US A LETTER