Listen to Becka Mara McKay read “Golden Shovel as Anthropomorphism” (Song of Songs 2:10) from Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25).
Becka Mara McKay is a poet and translator. She directs the Creative Writing MFA at Florida Atlantic University, where she serves as faculty advisor to Swamp Ape Review. Her newest book of poems is The Little Book of No Consolation (Barrow Street Press). You can find her recent work in Witness, Salt Hill Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Permafrost.