Mag Gabbert is currently a PhD student in creative writing at Texas Tech University, and previously received her MFA from The University of California at Riverside. Her essays and poems have been published or are forthcoming in journals including 32 Poems, The Rattling Wall, The Rumpus, Sheepshead Review, The Nervous Breakdown, and The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. She also serves an associate editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.
In the first sonnet of the sonnet sequence “People Like Us,” the speaker says, “By day I play nonstop if/then, internally pluck a love me, love me not lament…” This…