Once, homes were made of plaster, powdered lime and sand, mixed in with horsehair. Where did they get the horsehair? Did they hurt the horse, did they just brush the hair off? Imagine each home, in the middle of the night, sounds of galloping in walls.
Victoria Chang’s poetry books include OBIT (Copper Canyon, 2020), BarbieChang (Copper Canyon, 2017), and TheBoss (McSweeney’s, 2013). Her children’s books include Is Mommy? (Beach Lane Books, 2015), illustrated by Marla Frazee; and Love, Love (Sterling, 2020), a middle-grade novel. She is the program chair of Antioch’s low-residency MFA program.
