Robin Axworthy

Robin Axworthy is a local poet and retired teacher. She moderates the poetry section of the Writer’s Club of Whittier and is active in local poetry events and workshops. She has been published in various anthologies, including most recently Lullaby of Teeth (Moontide Press) and Selfish Work: Incandescent Mind 3 (Sadie Girl Press). She is currently working on a chapbook.

Artist Statement:

When I was a teenager, my go-to phrase was “I’m confused.” Writing and reading others’ poetry helps me un-confuse. My poetry often originates in something not quite seen – a presence or ghost peering from behind the concrete reality of the everyday – a tree or an argument or a turn in the road. In writing, I try to call that presence into being, delineate it, call it by its name, and find its place – and hope that others might also say, “Oh yes. I have seen this thing too.”