*SOME SPOILERS!* *CONTENT WARNING: FOUL LANGUAGE!* Friends, I'm super excited to share this just-under-an-hour zoom interview I had with the incomparable Jane Christmas! Her new book and first foray into fiction, A Flight of Saints, is out in the world and you must read it! Yes, there's a different name on the cover of this… Continue reading Interview with Jane Christmas about her new book ‘A Flight of Saints’!
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A Buncha Catch-Up!
Good goddess, it's been too long since I've posted! May has come and gone. What a zippy little month it was! Significant moments include turning 47 (!), whilst my son turned 19 (whaaaaat?!), visiting Stratford for the festival to see some stellar theatre, finishing a new poetry manuscript.... Indeed, did I mention that I turned… Continue reading A Buncha Catch-Up!
Poem 243 – Kempe: Creature
Kempe: Creature She names herselfCreature: this creature thisthis creature thatand the Lord visited this creatureand this creature keenly weptand this creature extravagantly sobbed* These are this creature’s words in the bestway she can offer them as this creatureis a woman forbidden to read and writein her time She names herselfCreature: What’s in a name?a world… Continue reading Poem 243 – Kempe: Creature
Poem 204 – What She’s Doing To Me
What She's Doing To Me “I know the days are offering me only murder for my future.” pg. 5, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart She comes at me in a flurry of assaulting adjectivesShe whips adverbs like wet switches on the shadows of my skinthe tender spots that… Continue reading Poem 204 – What She’s Doing To Me
VANESSA SHIELDS 