Chanda Feldman

Biography

Chanda Feldman’s poems have appeared in New South, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and elsewhere. A former Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, Feldman is also a recipient of grants and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Cave Canem, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She received her MFA from Cornell University.

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POETRY / Summer 2014

Election Day

By Chanda Feldman

No one picked in the fields on Election Day. 
The trucks drove us to a picnic on the Bluff. 
The children sang songs like it was Sunday. 

POETRY / Summer 2014

Elegy

By Chanda Feldman

Gathered in the yard, shed-side, pokeweed, 
black walnut, pecan tree all leafed and 
umbrellaing. My grandmother, the relatives