Julie BolithoAug 26, 20192 minChicken LearningI'm pleased to note that 'Chicken Learning' has been printed in the most recent edition of The Chaffin Journal. Chicken Learning Julie Bo...
Julie BolithoAug 26, 20191 minWorld SeriesI'm pleased to note that 'World Series' has been printed in the most recent edition of The Chaffin Journal. World Series Julie Bolitho Th...
Julie GraceNov 10, 20181 minCashew MoonReally pleased that my poem, "Cashew Moon," is being featured on Remembered Arts Journal's weekly edition this week. Check it out here or...
Julie BolithoSep 28, 20181 minDirt PrayerI wrote this poem quite a few years ago, and when I saw the call on Submittable for poems of peace, I thought of this. I'm pleased Inspir...
Julie BolithoJul 31, 20165 minSmileA spoken-word poem performed at the Catholic Chaplaincy in Oxford University. Smile by Julie Bolitho Thursday. I’m walking down St. Aldat...
Julie BolithoFeb 25, 20155 minHeart Real EstateFirst performed at the Catweazle Club in Oxford. Heart Real Estate Julie Bolitho “You’re taking up too much real estate in my mind,” she ...
Julie BolithoMar 11, 20141 minThe Cancer Ganginitiation is painful but quick before you know you’ve signed up been beaten down you’re enrolled entangled in a web created by circumsta...
Julie BolithoJul 29, 20131 minin the kingdommy dog uses urine like an empire would a flag as if he says, “With this drop I claim this land for the royal line of Spaniel. No Labrador...
Julie BolithoJul 29, 20131 minGriefDena asks me, “How do you cope with grief?” and all I can think of are the licked-clean broken eggshells scattered with pinecones along t...
Julie BolithoJul 25, 20121 minExits & EntrancesI was so fortunate to work this summer with Michael Manteck, a singer-songwriter, just finishing his undergraduate degree at Oxford Unive...
Julie BolithoJul 31, 20102 minLeaf Writers' Magazine InterviewThe day of my twenty-first birthday I flew to Ukraine on a travel grant which allowed me to work with orphans outside Chernobyl Zone 1. (...
Julie BolithoJul 1, 20101 minbrushing awayafter sex when my ear is pressed to the skin above your heart and your hand is brushing the damp strands of brown hair sticking to my for...
Julie BolithoJun 30, 20101 minon visiting a friendwhen my best friend from university tells me that he has just been accepted to San Francisco State I give him the reply that when it come...
Julie BolithoFeb 28, 20101 minCheck.We’re trying to support cows so there is no milk and we’re trying to pay the bills so there is no milk substitute and this morning I craw...
Julie BolithoFeb 28, 20101 minmidnight on the subwaytonight it’s a black man and woman making love with their necks and whispers on the dirty railway car yesterday it was a Chinese couple t...
Julie BolithoJul 31, 20091 minOn driving to chemotherapyIn Minnesota in February the black cows that graze in view of the freeway pull their hooves up and move through the snow mud and sparse w...
Julie BolithoNov 30, 20081 minPoem for My CatWhen there was cancer in my neck you would come down to my bedroom and rest your chin on mine while I slept. You would curl your body in ...
Julie BolithoSep 30, 20081 minmacadamia nut steamersAt fifteen we sat in church Sundays and felt guilty about the sex Saturdays. We wouldn’t hear the sermons— we would feel each other’s han...
Julie BolithoMar 31, 20081 minreviving februaryin dead january on michigan highway you hold my splitting ends tight to my frozen neck and you bring my chin up and brush your freckled m...
Julie BolithoOct 6, 20071 minukrainethere is an old soviet train running through communities of communist orchards and the family planters remain towns away bussing each day...