Math Trauma

Chase Twichell is the winner of Claremont Graduate University’s 2011 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, presented annually to an emerging poet. Twichell has published six books of poetry and co-edited the compendium The Practice of Poetry. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artists Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in upstate New York.

If you liked geometry,
it meant you were a prude.
Girls who liked algebra put out.
The cool …