Hailey Higdon writes poems, letters, essays, stories, novels, children’s books, and not-too-bad greeting cards. She creates sound poem experiences about once a decade. Hailey is the author of several poetry chapbooks including: The State In Which (above/ground), Packing (Bloof Books), How to Grow Almost Everything (Agnes Fox), and Rural (Drop Leaf Press). She is originally from Nashville, but currently resides in Seattle with her partner Tanya.
from A Wild Permanence
everywhere I go
they are waiting as an American I want to talk about myself
go in and out of getting prayer, suggest light
exposure about myself I spoiled with competition
a country so green we all wanted it
then to have that particular experience of being talked
out of the conversation