Book
Hospice, winner of the Finishing Line Press 2024 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry
Release Date: September 26, 2025
“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
Poems
“Dead Doe at Chapoquoit” - Moon City Review (forthcoming)
“New Recording 48: on the distance between 16 and 41” - Denver Quarterly (forthcoming)
“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 Essays
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
How can we 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 will discuss 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
