Join The Dillydoun Review in celebrating National Poetry Month with
A Poem by Nancy White
girls sit down
between the rest
we look first
one way then
the other did
you raise your
hand did you
lose your place
did you do
good then did
this silence
this face go
silent upon
a subject silent
Nancy White is the author of three poetry collections: Sun, Moon, Salt (winner of the Washington Prize), Detour, and Ask Again Later. Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Review, FIELD, New England Review, Ploughshares, Rhino, and many others. She serves as editor-in-chief at The Word Works in Washington, D. C. and teaches at SUNY Adirondack.
