Articles

Eileen McCluskey

Eileen McCluskey writes with a left-handed slant. In addition to her OPP works, Eileen's poetry has appeared in Haiku Journal, 6S, Main Street Rag, Ibbetson Street, and other publications. Her first chapbook, Topless — a collaboration by Eileen and poets Deborah Mead and Kara Provost — was a finalist in the 2010 MSR Editor's Choice Chapbook Series, available from mainstreetrag.com.

Readers should also know that Eileen is crazy about her teenage daughter, Maeve McCluskey, and Mani, their adopted dog.

(Photo by Jeremy C. Fox)

► Eileen's micro-chapbooks & selected poems are available below.

Origami Micro-chapook	Selected Poem(s)
Tornado Haiku
	One Tornado of blood may you be gentled, strange beast that tears earth from earth. • Eileen McCluskey © 2011
Divorce Haiku
	One Flat tube of toothpaste, bland icon of our conflicts thrown out with a sigh. Your ring dropped to snow. I didn’t feel its absence; just a round, dull pain. • Eileen McCluskey © 2011