Haley Down

Haley Down, poet

Haley Down is a student at the University of Essex, currently pursuing a Masters of Wild Writing. She has been an editor at Blank Spaces since 2018. She writes environmental poetry and in her free time she can be found talking to the trees, at her sewing machine, or playing boardgames with her friends.

The Poetry Teacher Tells Us to Write About Desire— Volume 8, Issue 1

Haley Down explores the difference between simple yearning and gutting want in her poetic offering of The Poetry Teacher Tells Us to Write About Desire.

From the Shoreline — Volume 7, Issue 1

Staff writer, Haley Down unpacks From the Shoreline, a new poetry collection by Steffi Tad-y and published by Gordon Hill Press, proving that great art allows for both violets and violence.

Cedar Canoe, Magnolia, and I Think About The River — Volume 6, Issue 2

Haley Down returns to nature and the beauty of hands-on living with her tender poems, Cedar Canoe and Magnolia. I Think About The River gently asks us to slow down and take notice of the beauty around us, challenging us to somehow reflect the movement of water within our own lives.