Alyssa Jewell
Alyssa Jewell recently graduated from Western Michigan University with an MFA in Creative Writing and holds an M.Ed. in TESOL from Grand Valley State University. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2016, Colorado Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Lake Effect, Quarterly West, Quiddity, and Zone 3, among other publications. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she teaches college poetry and ESL courses.
Work by this author
Elegy with Trees
every day in your absence,
I take less comfort in the growth of living things.