“I’m working on a chapbook about chores – laundry, dusting – poems that want to change forever the way we think about these drudging tasks. Readying the fans is an annual ritual to prepare for our summers: killing, dry heat followed by stifling, wet heat. A favorite place as a child was the cool basement of our city library; the ‘smell of sun on yellow bricks’ is an echo from a book that transported me to wondrous places.”

Charity Everitt is home in Tucson, Arizona, after education and other adventures in the Midwest. Much of her professional career was in technical writing and engineering software design and development. She finds the linguistic precision required in her technical career to be eminently applicable to poetry, making tangible the process of dissolving boundaries between the actual and the mysterious.