Rosie Accola
Rosie Accola is a queer guido, writer, and editor who lives in Michigan. They graduated from Naropa University with their MFA in Creative Writing in 2022. They published their first poetry collection, Referential Body, in 2019 with Ghost City Press. They’re currently working on a lyric novella about a wily group of queer guidos, attempting to film a reality show during the dulcet summer of 2009 (out w/ Bullshit, ’24). You can follow them on Instagram @rosieaccola.
CPC Readings
Friday, September 20, 2019
Blue Hour Reading Series
with Jessica Mascarenhas
Poetry by Rosie Accola
The porch is heavy with old rain
and i am heavy too.
I am stronger than u give me credit for
My heart’s 2 big for my body
and my body wants to fight me everyday.
Conflicting entities
silk thrift store camisoles purchased on balmy summer days
when family vacations and size-five shoes still fit.
The cashier gave me $3 off because
it looks good on you
That was the first time I realized
that maybe I was pretty enough
to get something I’d actually want
instead of mute boys with longboards/acne/shy smiles.
Lacy Anne Russo slept with a stuffed rabbit named Bart until she was fifteen. I know this because Bart was the only witness to our first kiss. We were at Anna Peterson’s sleepover birthday party. I can’t sleep anywhere except my own bed. I was busy listening to the whirr of the fan when I heard Lacy get up beside me. She dug Bart out of the bottom of her duffle bag; he’d been stuffed beneath the smooth plastic bottom. His ears were squished to the side; the fabric was bare where Lacy worried it with her thumb.