Artist Statement: Rainy season is a collection of origami umbrellas with sixteen-line poems built around two lines that are voice cuttings, that is, voices I hear in my city living. Each voice cutting line repeats at least once in another umbrella (though not necessarily in the umbrellas included here). The umbrella form invites the reader to enter the poem where they wish.
Heidi Zeigler, raised in Texas, teaches and writes in Mexico City. Her poems appear and are forthcoming in descant, Wild Roof Journal, Kaleidoscoped Magazine, and di-verse-city anthology, among others. She has been a workshop leader in the Feria Internacional del Libro Monterrey, Mexico, and received her MFA from UT El Paso.