Rose Reads Covers the Music of Writing
On this episode of Rose Reads, poet Rose Solari dissects the verse of Reuben Jackson, Ellen Cole, Brandon Johnson, and others in order to understand the role music plays in the meaning and beauty of a poem.
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New Review of Girls Like Us: GLU “Bulges with Debilitating Last Lines”
In Lannie Stabile’s new review of Elizabeth Hazen’s second collection Girls Like Us, she raves about the effect of Hazen’s “last lines.” Girls Like Us, she says, is “bulging with debilitating last lines.” Like this one in the opening poem “Devices,” that Stabile points to as like a “hook,” “We’ve been called so many things that we are not, we startle at the sound of our own names.”
New Poem by Elizabeth Hazen “Panic Attack” Lands in Failbetter
A new poem by Maryland standout Elizabeth Hazen has been published in the 62nd volume of Failbetter literary journal. The poem, titled “Panic Attack,” is dark and violent.
Attending AWP? Check out Katherine E. Young’s Panel on Women in Translation
Join Katherine E. Young at AWP to discuss women in translation and systems of exclusion.