“Math Quiz” to be anthologized

I am humbled and deeply honored to have my poem “Math Quiz” accepted for the anthology Betrayed: Violence Against Women out of Moonstone Arts Center. “How,” you may ask, “does a math quiz have anything to do with the horror of violence against women?” Let me share the first few lines of the poem:
Math Quiz
How does the point spread of
the football game the Raiders lose
impact the velocity at which a Redwing
boot smashes through the screen
of a cathode ray tube television?
[…]
The poem continues in this vein, articulating the calculations a daughter has to learn in a household with an angry father. When I was writing this one, I felt the head-on approach wasn’t horrific enough (Lord, how we’re all desensitized to violence nowadays). Much like trying to explain chronic pain to someone without it, explaining the constant aura of violence in a house where you aren’t actually beaten is a tough thing to do. My approach was to frame it from how I understood it as a girl: as a series of academic mental calculations to determine how safe I was at any given moment.
Damn all fathers who make their daughters good at this math.