Ellen Bryant Voigt is an American poet who grew up in Viriginia. She attended Converse College and earned her MA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She served for a time as the poet laureate of Virginia. So far, she has published six collections of poetry and a collection of essays.
‘My Mother’ by Ellen Bryant Voigt explores a speaker’s understanding of her mother and how her mother considered her as she aged.
my mother my mother my mother she
could do anything so she did everything the world
was an unplowed field a dress to be hemmed a scraped knee it needed
a casserole it needed another alto in the choir her motto was apply yourself
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