Lesson
By
Elly Bookman
From the Spring 2018 Issue
Elly Bookman, winner of The Georgia Review’s 2017 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, was also the recipient of the first annual Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review in 2010. Bookman’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, the Florida Review, and elsewhere. She writes and teaches in her hometown of Atlanta.