Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem

Cassandra self-publishes a small art and literary zine called “Rag" and runs a monthly literary reading series at The Beat Museum in San Francisco. Her poems have been published in The New Delta Review, Rip Rap, Hawaii Review, The Lifted Brow and elsewhere. She has a poem forthcoming in 'peculiar: a queer literary journal' and three poems forthcoming in For Women Who Roar. She holds a BA from California Institute of Integral Studies and MFA from California College of the Arts.

“Territory of Ladders,” “Elephant Burial” and “Lost Neighbors”

Who were you before ships
became your shoes? Now you sway

on mesozoic legs wondering why
there’s no stability inside. I heard you pierced

ears with knives and severed free thinking
on every continent before.