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Gwendolyn Brooks herself really wished we’d all think about reading her other poems and give this one a minute of rest. But the reason this poem changed me involves multiple layers of experience, so there’s a bit of a different spin here that I hope would give me a pass to bring it up yet
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“Poems that changed me” is a fairly broad and amorphous phrase. And it sounds hopelessly idealistic. I remember on my first day of grad school, my literary theory prof asked each of us why we were there. Everyone had very intellectual, jargon-y answers, and then I said something like “I think literature can tell us
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by Jessica L. Walsh, blog mistress For National Poetry Month, I’m going to share a poem each day that changed me. Personally, this month will be about reflecting and appreciating others’ contributions. This is a love story, plain and simple, between a dame and an art form. A few disclaimers: Selections will not be what
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Blog mistress Jessica Walsh had the opportunity to talk with Joanna Valente about the new Agape Editions title, the soul, our soul JW: Tell me about the relationship between the visual and textual components. Are there any visual pieces that led to poems, or vice versa? JV: Both happened! Sometimes I wrote poems first and
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Jessica Walsh (JW) interviews Hillary Leftwich (HL) about Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock, an intense and lyrically agile collection newly published by the Haunted Doll House imprint of Agape Editions. Ghost Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock is now available for purchase. JW: The title of this collection is Ghosts
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As Ari Honarvar’s debut novel A Girl Called Rumi turned a year old, Agape Editions invited her to speak about the novel, her experiences living in Iran & the USA, and what activism means to her. Fox Henry Frazier: Your first novel, A Girl Called Rumi, has been out for a year now. It’s been
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We’re delighted to reveal the beautiful and terrifying front cover for Hillary Leftwich’s Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock, which will be released in January 2023 as the first title of our Haunted Doll House imprint. This new edition of the book will contain poetry, essay, and visual art. Image description: A
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Mercury Retrograde you have brought me a cold and car trouble my head full of pebbles and water you scrambling planet hot little god of cock- sure orbit and a handbag name all merch and mayhem you turn this day like a trick toward hell nothing works not zinc not the new fuse not even love functions you little fucker 🟣🟣🟣 Leslie LaChance is a poet, essayist, and editor who splits
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This is the seventh and final part of an interview series with authors whose work appeared in Erase the Patriarchy (University of Hell Press, 2020), the erasure-poetry anthology edited by Isobel O’Hare that offers readers myriad points of entry from which to consider & re-consider the subgenre in all its weird, messy power and unreduced complexity. In addition to
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This is part six of an interview series with authors whose work appeared in Erase the Patriarchy (University of Hell Press, 2020), the erasure-poetry anthology edited by Isobel O’Hare that offers readers myriad points of entry from which to consider & re-consider the subgenre in all its weird, messy power and unreduced complexity. In addition to Mx.
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This is part five of an interview series with authors whose work appears in the erasure-poetry anthology Erase the Patriarchy (University of Hell Press, 2020), which offers readers myriad points of entry from which to consider & re-consider the subgenre. Previous interviewees include editor Isobel O’Hare, as well as authors Tara Campbell, Kitty Stryker, and Addie Tsai. Part five
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This is part four of an interview series with authors whose work appears in the erasure-poetry anthology Erase the Patriarchy (University of Hell Press, 2020), about which I generally can’t say enough good things. You can read the first interview, with editor Isobel O’Hare, here; the second interview, with author and Barrelhouse Fiction co-Editor Tara Campbell, here; and the
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