Amelia Martens's prose poems reveal expansive ideas in compressed language. From the domestic to the geopolitical, from the mundane to the miraculous, these brief vignettes take the form of prayers, parables, confessions, and revelations. Intimate and urgent, Martens's poems are strange, darkly funny, and utterly beguiling. Amelia Martensis the author of the chapbooksPurgatory(Black Lawrence Press, 2012),Clatter(Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2013), andA Series of Faults(Finishing Line Press, 2014). She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, and lives in Paducah, Kentucky, where she teaches at West Kentucky Community & Technical College. Amelia Martens's prose poems reveal expansive ideas in compressed language. From the domestic to the geopolitical, from the mundane to the miraculous, these brief vignettes take the form of prayers, parables, confessions, and revelations. Intimate and urgent, Martens's poems are strange, darkly funny, and utterly beguiling. Amelia Martensis the author of the chapbooksPurgatory(Black Lawrence Press, 2012),Clatter(Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2013), andA Series of Faults(Finishing Line Press, 2014). She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, and lives in Paducah, Kentucky, where she teaches at West Kentucky Community & Technical College. | The Spoons In The Grass Are There To Dig A Moat by Amelia Martens, Paperback | Indigo Chapters