Tag: Kym Cunningham

I can trick you into swallowing
privilege.

Ours is too big to shove
in your mouths.

“Chubby bunny,”
the President laughs as

whiteness falls
from his tongue.

Clinton said that being president
is like an orgy:

you’ve got a lot of people under you
and nobody’s listening.

We wait
to be seduced.

Kym Cunningham will receive her MFA from San Jose State University with emphases in creative nonfiction and poetry.  She is the lead Nonfiction Editor of Reed Magazine, the oldest literary magazine West of the Mississippi.  She received the Ida Fay Sachs Ludwig Memorial Scholarship and the Academy of American Poets Prize for outstanding achievement in her writing. Her writing has been published in Drunk Monkeys and Reed.