"The Gates" featured on Wildness' Curated Literary Guide!
A total stranger has made my day (and made me cry a little) by writing this thoughtful, generous, heart-felt blurb about my poem "The Gates" (recently published in issue #20 of the Adroit Journal): "I admit that I chose this week’s poem out of selfishness and vulnerability. As a reader of poetry, I find myself looking for an abiding image, or some unanswered question that long sticks in my mind after the last word. ‘The Gates’ satisfies this desire and yet leaves me exposed t
Review of Zoe Dzunko's Selfless in Poetry Northwest!
For about as long as I've been reading contemporary poetry, I've been thinking about the intersections between contemporary poetry and histories of racialized violence in the United States, particularly the legacy of slavery and white supremacy. I've found Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark, The Racial Imaginary anthology (ed. by Claudia Rankine), and Roger Reeves' Poets & Writers craft talk (among many other articles, interviews, and conversations) extremely helpful in form
