House of Deer

Sasha Steensen teaches poetry workshops, literature courses, letterpress printing, and bookmaking at Colorado State University. She is the author of The Method (Fence Books, 2008), A Magic Book, which won the Alberta Prize (Fence Books, 2004), A History of the Human Family (Flying Guillotine Press, 2010), The Future of an Illusion (Dos Press, 2008), and correspondence (with Gordon Hadfield, Handwritten Press, 2004). Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Denver Quarterly, Aufgabe, Bombay Gin, Free Verse, Shearsman, Shiny, and La Petit Zine. Her essays and reviews have appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Chain, P-queue, and Interim. Steensen is also coeditor of Bonfire Press, and she serves as one of the poetry editors for Colorado Review.

A portrait in poems of the back-to-the-land movement of the '70s: the hippies and hicks, addictions and attempts at recovery.

Domestication and the ChaseMy Trees Knot Up and a Forest MakeFamilyThe family bought a rural plot & planted a garden.Longtime residents of the nearby farms watched.The family loved its overgrown plot.It was their bicentennial.HOUSE OF DEERElection DayFragmentsThe family's relationship with itself was strained.This was meant to be a story about his "birthplace," his "permanent home-"This was meant to be a story of happenstance.This was meant to be a story of euphemism. This was meant to be a story, and it may be.Nursery RhymeTHE GIRL AND THE DEERIf there is no perception which is not full of memory, then this:As it should be, the family sold the farm.Looking back, the family liked to wonder.A HISTORY OF THE HUMAN FAMILYDid I Invent This EventThe family built a cabin.Personal Poem Including Opium's HistoryHigh Park Fire, Colorado, 2012The UndertowThe Gnarly Nest Experience and Expression Make