Poems
“Time Moves With Alteration" and "Search Condition" - Annulet (forthcoming)
“Self Portrait as a Childhood Memory of a Taffy Machine in the Window of a Seaside Shop” - The New Orleans Review (forthcoming)
“Girlishly” - Identity Theory (forthcoming)
“I had a scan” and “Of Fatigue” - s w i f t s: a literary magazine
“Lamotragine Infinity I” - Maudlin House
“Dead Doe at Chapoquoit” - Moon City Review
“New Recording 48: on the distance between 16 and 41” - Denver Quarterly
“Mothering is a Social Construct, and I am Motherless” - Inflectionist Review
“Executor of Tangible Goods” - Identity Theory
”Eight Postpartum Reflections in Almost Tanka” - Paraselene
”River Bottom” - Tulip Tree Review
Essays
“Writing from the Wound: Leaving Room for Raw Urgency” - Brevity Blog Craft Essay
Poetry Collection
Hospice, winner of the Finishing Line Press 2024 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry
“In a lean but hard-hitting, visceral verse, Akin ardently depicts what it is like dealing with the loss of a mother, void and haunting memory. A strong, memorable debut collection!” – Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of The Parachutist and Bad Mexican, Bad American
Available from some favorite places in Massachusetts: Eight Cousins, Falmouth, Broadside Bookshop, Northampton, and C’est La Vie, Marblehead. Also available at bookshop.org or wherever you purchase books. Or you can order signed copies directly.
Readings
LIT Youngstown, Friday, October 17, 1:30pm
Across Time and Space: Why We Need Ancient Texts in Modern Poetry
Molly Akin, Jane Huffman, Ellen Kombiyil, Chloe Martinez, Minal Hajratwala
Facilitator Cecilia Woloch
Delivered at LIT Youngstown, this panel explored how we can interact with ancient texts in a way that lets them speak to contemporary experiences—which they do so clearly—while honoring distances of time, culture, and ethics? Poets discussed a plurality of techniques such as erasure, translation, imaginative re-tellings, and speculative “translations” from as-yet undeciphered scripts.
Saturday, May 31, 2025, 10:15am - Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA
The Informal Formal: A Craft Reading, featuring Molly Akin, Desiree C. Bailey, Tatiana Johnson-Boria, and Michael Mercurio.
Delivered at the 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, this panel explored new forms and how to determine a “right” form for the poem’s subject (even the “timeless” one). Each of the readers offered a selection of their work and discussed how the poems were shaped during the writing and revision process, with a focus on the “formal” choices made.
Molly’s reading starts at 17:09
Molly’s reading starts at 15:04
