Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
red blues
my name is red/red
sugar/the red-headed stranger/red
summer/mars being red/red moon/red planet/the big
red one/crimson and clover/the thin red line/red/red rover/the red
badge of courage/red scare/red notice/scarlet/
scarlett/the hunt for red
october/red clay weather/the scar-
let letter/red alert/red one/red list/redbook/meet me in the red
room/the red car/the red tower/the red
hour/red clocks/red dawn/red doc/one fish two fish
red fish blue fish/red rain/the red
umbrella/red azalea/the scar-
let pimpernel/crimson
tide/vermillion sea/the red desert/red dragon/the masque
of the red death/red bird/the cardinal/rose
where did you get that red/all day permanent red/the red
cavalry/moulin rouge/the red
balloon/the red
shoes/the red shoes/the red
book/the red dress/pretty red dress/red cape tango/wrapped
in red/under a blood red sky/red red wine/incarnadine/little red
wagon/little red corvette/cool red cool/red right
hand/the man with red suspenders/red sorghum/red juice/red white
and you/the vicious red relic/red elvises/the red green show/where the red
fern grows/red red red/red
horse/red comet/the lady in red/red wilderness/the woman in
red/seeing red/turning red/clifford
the big red dog/the red tent/the red parts/cherry cherry/a study in scarlet/
the red pony/red riding/red rising/the red shoe diaries/the red
thread/three colors: red/red suburb/red suitcase/ruby/rubies/ruby
tuesday/red trousseau/like red on a rose/the red
wheelbarrow/born
red/red dead redemption/beneath a scar-
let sky/red signature/the red and the black/i saw
red/perma red/autobiography
of red
sugar/the red-headed stranger/red
summer/mars being red/red moon/red planet/the big
red one/crimson and clover/the thin red line/red/red rover/the red
badge of courage/red scare/red notice/scarlet/
scarlett/the hunt for red
october/red clay weather/the scar-
let letter/red alert/red one/red list/redbook/meet me in the red
room/the red car/the red tower/the red
hour/red clocks/red dawn/red doc/one fish two fish
red fish blue fish/red rain/the red
umbrella/red azalea/the scar-
let pimpernel/crimson
tide/vermillion sea/the red desert/red dragon/the masque
of the red death/red bird/the cardinal/rose
where did you get that red/all day permanent red/the red
cavalry/moulin rouge/the red
balloon/the red
shoes/the red shoes/the red
book/the red dress/pretty red dress/red cape tango/wrapped
in red/under a blood red sky/red red wine/incarnadine/little red
wagon/little red corvette/cool red cool/red right
hand/the man with red suspenders/red sorghum/red juice/red white
and you/the vicious red relic/red elvises/the red green show/where the red
fern grows/red red red/red
horse/red comet/the lady in red/red wilderness/the woman in
red/seeing red/turning red/clifford
the big red dog/the red tent/the red parts/cherry cherry/a study in scarlet/
the red pony/red riding/red rising/the red shoe diaries/the red
thread/three colors: red/red suburb/red suitcase/ruby/rubies/ruby
tuesday/red trousseau/like red on a rose/the red
wheelbarrow/born
red/red dead redemption/beneath a scar-
let sky/red signature/the red and the black/i saw
red/perma red/autobiography
of red
what Gran won't tell Little Red
the doll i
bind when i
play crone
the braided hair
white tail/ored
skirt the hour’s
waist the burial
place dun child
things of girl
i know that whet
the blade inside
ago a glance
we tell
as storyboard
when blunt
you come
to narrow hem
a loved doll’s smock
the tattered fray
the negligé
a doll you’ll darn
when you are old
pull back my hood
behold the wolf
lift up your
skirt the folds
of gran there
am a doll
a thirst we will
no husband/hunts
man/widow’s ail
summer sears
the castoff cloak
red satin snare
a bone
white apron
entrails smear
guts that know
no huntsman’s axe
what dolls we
cleave to fill
w/tacks
bind when i
play crone
the braided hair
white tail/ored
skirt the hour’s
waist the burial
place dun child
things of girl
i know that whet
the blade inside
ago a glance
we tell
as storyboard
when blunt
you come
to narrow hem
a loved doll’s smock
the tattered fray
the negligé
a doll you’ll darn
when you are old
pull back my hood
behold the wolf
lift up your
skirt the folds
of gran there
am a doll
a thirst we will
no husband/hunts
man/widow’s ail
summer sears
the castoff cloak
red satin snare
a bone
white apron
entrails smear
guts that know
no huntsman’s axe
what dolls we
cleave to fill
w/tacks
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Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s books include Boys Behind Glass (TRP, 2026), A Wake with Nine Shades (TRP, 2019), & Her Read, A Graphic Poem (TRP, 2021), recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters’ Fred Whitehead Award and a Foreword Reviews Prize in Poetry. A poet, interdisciplinary artist, scholar and licensed builder, she lectures at the University of Michigan, spins the O is for Octopus substack, and is the biographer of CD Wright. The recipient of residencies and fellowships from Yale, Vermont Studio Center, Community of Writers, and elsewhere, she writes and teaches to commute chronic pain.
Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s books include Boys Behind Glass (TRP, 2026), A Wake with Nine Shades (TRP, 2019), & Her Read, A Graphic Poem (TRP, 2021), recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters’ Fred Whitehead Award and a Foreword Reviews Prize in Poetry. A poet, interdisciplinary artist, scholar and licensed builder, she lectures at the University of Michigan, spins the O is for Octopus substack, and is the biographer of CD Wright. The recipient of residencies and fellowships from Yale, Vermont Studio Center, Community of Writers, and elsewhere, she writes and teaches to commute chronic pain.