Our Fall 2021 preview series continues with Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language, edited by Eufemia Fantetti, Leonarda Carranza, and Ayelet Tsabari! This vital anthology opens a compelling dialogue about language diversity and probes the importance of language in our identity and the ways in which it shapes us. In this collection of deeply […]
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For this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from poet and playwright Shannon Bramer’s highly anticipated new poetry book, Precious Energy. In Bramer’s fourth full collection—and first in over a decade—we find vibrantly sad, peculiar, and often funny poems about domestic life, motherhood, and the baffled child that […]
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Lesley Battler‘s debut collection Endangered Hydrocarbons channels the poet’s personal experience as an employee of Shell Oil into an ingenious suite of poems confronting the extent and the implications of oil production in Canada. As a veteran of Big Oil, Battler is able to write from the unique perspective of the poet-insider. Appropriating the corporate and scientific language of oil extraction […]
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