Webb5 sep. 2024 · For this year’s #SeptWomenPoets, we’re starting with Shara Lessley’s The Explosive Expert’s Wife, published in 2024 as part of the Wisconsin Poetry Series. WebbShara Lessley is a writer and teacher. The author of Two-Headed Nightingale and The Explosive Expert’s Wife, winner of the Sheila Motton Prize for Best Collection, and …
Shara Lessley Interview — bath magg
WebbShara Lessley is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. Her awards include the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship from Colgate University, the 2006 Discovery/_The Nation _prize, and the 2007 Moondancer Fellowship from The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow. Shara’s poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, The … WebbShara Lessley Poems 1. Hopkins At The Window Past darkness he pitches bits of plaster. Bats wobble and dart. My eyes are small and dull, he writes an artist friend, of ... Read … impact guided servicenow
SHARA LESSLEY // Devotions: Coming Out on Matters of Faith
WebbShara Lessley, interviewed by Mariah Whelan Mariah Whelan: In The Explosive Expert’s Wife, violence is threaded throughout the poems—from terrorism to small moments of self-violence necessary to get by as a woman. However, I also … Webb18 jan. 2024 · Shara Lessley’s second poetry collection, The Explosive Expert’s Wife, opens with an epigraph from Emily Dickinson: The Soul has moments of Escape – When bursting all the doors – She dances like a Bomb, abroad, And swings upon the Hours WebbIn twenty-nine innovative essays, The Poem’s Country: Place & Poetic Practice considers how the question of place shapes contemporary poetry. Responding from cities and … impact guardrail