Isabel Hoin

Isabel Hoin (she/her) is an emerging poet and student at Old Dominion University where she is a Perry Morgan fellow in their MFA program. She works at The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, VA, teaching people of all ages the art of poetry. Her work is already in or is forthcoming in Door=Jar Magazine, Blue Press Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, Chariot Press, The Fool’s World, among others. Her poem “Writing To The Silence Of Mother’s House” was nominated by ODU MFA faculty for the AWP Intro Journal Contest. You can find her at https://www.isabelhoin.com/.

To the Silence of a Continuous Thing

The snow in the north falls, and melts, without the help of Niobe’s tears. She, too, lost her children—her ...