Caylin Capra-Thomas

Caylin Capra-Thomas is the author of the poetry collection Iguana Iguana (Deep Vellum, 2022), and her poems and nonfiction have appeared in Pleiades, New England Review, 32 Poems, Mississippi Review, and others. The recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Studios of Key West, she was the 2018–2020 poet-in-residence at Idyllwild Arts Academy. She lives in Columbia, Missouri, where she is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Stephens College and a PhD candidate in English at the University of Missouri.

LILACS

I’ll never get over them—I won’t even try. Color, fragrance, notion: lilac. If in New…