Fire Sermons2021
Raye Hendrix
Raye Hendrix (she/they) is a poet from Alabama. Her debut full-length poetry collection, "What Good Is Heaven," is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in 2024. Raye's work appears in American Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere.
Eugene, OR, United States
Chapbooks
Selected work (4 publications)
Inside JokeThe joke goes like this: one day you’re young, and the next you’re looking up the names of birds.
creative nonfiction
Five PoemsFrom "Apology-Ode to My Accent"
sweetslow as sorghum
vowels gorgeous peaches fuzzing
in the mouth
thick as a thicket of kudzu
smooth as buttered grits
bright hot iron of Birmingham
soft without the g
poetry
SyndromeEvery child I might have had is a knot on a long, coiled rope, red
to the touch. Think of them like this, like the song: 99 red balloons.
poetry
Let Not a Womanafter I’m caught with my fingers
beneath her shirt at church skipping
Sunday School I am sent to a Christ
-based therapist with a self-proclaimed
77% dyke rehab success rate
poetry