Jessica Walsh
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Blog Mistress Jessica L. Walsh talked with poet Kiara Nicole Letcher on her new book Oxblood, available for purchase here. JW: When reading Oxblood I thought of the poem “The Quiet House” by one of my favorite poets, Charlotte Mew, which contains a line stating “Red is the strangest pain to bear.” The pervasiveness of
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As blog mistress for Agape Editions, I recently had the chance to talk with the creative pair who bring us Growing, the first release from our Kumquat Books children’s imprint. Mélusine Thierry, author, and Z.A. Pappas, illustrator, answered a few questions about their moving and joyful book. JW: Tell me about a book from your own
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by Jessica L. Walsh Katie Manning is quietly doing more in the literary community at any given time than I could possibly do, so obviously I asked her to do more by answering a few questions about her profoundly wonderful book Hereverent, now available. Read on for a recent poem that blows me away. JW:
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Yesterday I worked as an election judge. I was there by 5 am, turnout was light, and the day just dragged. About 12 hours after I had arrived, I looked up to see my husband walking through the doors, and I felt a surge in my chest, like my heart was flipping. He’d received a
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Jessica L. Walsh Today I’m writing about a living poet, Liz O’Connell-Thompson, who happens to be a wonderful person I’ve had the privilege of meeting a few times around Poetryville. The poem is a short one: Hush On nights without sleep,remember rattling down the highwayin the back seat where you learnedthe curves of the way
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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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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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Limps, really. Drops onto the first stool, starts rubbing her bare blistered feet. She nods upwards once to the bartender the way drunks do to signal whatever’s cheap. I gave up my voice you know–fought a bitch to get it back. And now it hurts to stand. Every step is glass. We let her talk.
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Jessica Walsh spoke with Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, author of Agape Editions’ latest collection, Strut. See hyperlinks in the interview for clips of Mariahadessa reading her poems! JW: When you look at the book now, what experiences or other influences do you think led to its creation? MET: Rage, loss, sensuality, and the blues were all
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Social justice is central to Agape’s mission, and we thought we’d share with you some books that have changed and challenged us.
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