Ashling Meehan-Fanning

CONTACT:
Email: poemsbyashling@gmail.com
Website: www.poemsbyashling.com

BIO:
Ashling Meehan-Fanning is a poet based in Wisconsin whose work often includes themes of magic, ancestry, and the American Midwest. She spends a lot of time thinking about ghosts and trees. 
 

PUBLICATIONS:
Her collection COLOSSAL GIRL was published in December 2020. Her recent work has been featured in Troublemaker Firestarter Vol. 4, Thó Wiŋ Magazine, Written Tales, and The Crackling Kettle. In Spring 2024 she was the featured poet in the collection Terra Verse by Elixir Verse Press.

Poetry

a character study of an american woman

appalachian banshee,
old world sidhe 
pennsylvania coal eyes
dissident, old, wise
hair of rambling dead roots
foggy smile hangin’ off a noose,
new world witch, mouth full of midge
craggy spine like a mountain ridge
teeth like storm clouds, and a voice like god.