Morning commute after another mass shooting

Grace Gilbert’s recent poetics and lyric essays can be found in the Adroit Journal, Ninth Letter, plain china, Anomaly Literary Journal, Pretty Owl Poetry, Maudlin House, Twyckenham Notes, Vox Viola, storm of blue press, Sweet Literary Magazine, tilde, and the Gandy Dancer, among others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and was a finalist in the Princemere Poetry Prize and the Adroit Prizes. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, where she consumes unholy amounts of cheese and dumplings.