Leigh Holland

Leigh Holland grew up in Alabama, got an MFA in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt University, and now teaches English in South Korea. Her poetry has appeared or will soon appear in the Alabama Literary Review, Rumblefish Quarterly, Subterranean Blue, Panoplyzine, The Remembered Arts Journal and Gargoyle Magazine.

“Augusta Ada Lovelace, A.A.L.”, “Made Up” and “Six Hours before Performance”

She walks in, seventeen and agate-pale, to view the Difference Engine No. 1 with her maman—blue taffeta, white veil, herself a fearsome intellect and bastion of social justice. Great gold instrument, steam engine structure and pipe organ height, exquisitely bewitching. Ada, intent on further knowledge,

Issue 17, September 2018

Leigh Holland

Leigh Holland grew up in Alabama, got an MFA in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt University, and now teaches English in South Korea. Her poetry has appeared or will soon appear in the Alabama Literary Review, Rumblefish Quarterly, Subterranean Blue, Panoplyzine, The Remembered Arts Journal and Gargoyle Magazine.

“Augusta Ada Lovelace, A.A.L.”, “Made Up” and “Six Hours before Performance”

She walks in, seventeen and agate-pale, to view the Difference Engine No. 1 with her maman—blue taffeta, white veil, herself a fearsome intellect and bastion of social justice. Great gold instrument, steam engine structure and pipe organ height, exquisitely bewitching. Ada, intent on further knowledge,

Issue 17, September 2018

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