YOUR COUNTRY AND EVERYONE IN IT

By Abby Minor

Abby-Minor

Abby Minor lives in the ridges and valleys of central Pennsylvania, where she works on poems, essays, drawings, and projects exploring reproductive politics. Her first book, As I Said: A Dissent, is a collection of long documentary poems concerning abortion, embodiment, justice, and citizenship in U.S. history.

“Your Country and Everyone in it” was awarded first place in the 2016 Abortion Rights Poetry Contest, judged by Sonya Renee Taylor and co-sponsored by the Abortion Care Network and Split This Rock, and appears in Split This Rock’s The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database splitthisrock.org/poetry-database.