Read an excerpt: “Some Place”

Praise for Little Hour

“What a pleasure to listen to an ‘I’ who never forgets that we’re all part of a ‘we’. Rae Gouirand’s poems in Little Hour speak with a voice as present and persuasive as weather.

— Kathleen Rooney, author of Where Are the Snows

About Rae Gouirand

Rae Gouirand is also the author of two collections of poetry, Glass is Glass Water is Water (Spork Press, 2018) and Open Winter (winner of the Bellday Prize, Bellday Books, 2011), the chapbooks Jinx (winner of the Summer Kitchen Competition, Seven Kitchens Press, 2019) and Must Apple (winner of the Oro Fino Competition, Educe Press, 2018), and the short work of nonfiction, The History of Art (winner of the Open Reading Competition, The Atlas Review, 2019). Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Conjunctions, diode, jubilat, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, ZYZZYVA, two volumes of the Best New Poets series, Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology, and many other journals and anthologies nationwide. She leads several longrunning independent workshops in northern California and online, including the cross-genre workshop Scribe Lab, and lectures in the Department of English at UC-Davis.