Poet and essayist Isobel O’Hare has offered a poignant response to the #MeToo movement, using apology statements from celebrity sexual predators to create powerful erasure poetry. In one example, ...
A pattern has emerged with every new allegation of sexual misconduct. After the bombshell comes an "apology" letter — now the accused's ubiquitous and perfunctory mechanism for responding. Many have ...
As a poet, Erin Dorney is a bit of a magician. She can make airy poems appear from the dense text of an obscure ornithology book or create illuminating epiphanies from the canned answers a jaded ...
Creating an erasure poem means finding your voice lurking in another’s words. It can be a way to start writing when words fail. By E. Kristin Anderson The past year has been difficult for many people.
Romaine Washington is the editor of “These Black Bodies Are… A Blacklandia Anthology,” “Purgatory Has an Address” and “Sirens in Her Belly.” (Courtesy of Romaine Washington) The worst thing about ...
Writer and poet E. Kristin Anderson ’05 is finding original poetry hiding in the pages of her newspapers, and she’s encouraging others to do the same. In a recent article in The New York Times, ...
Isobel O’Hare/Rich Fury/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images And, as artists tend to do, she has reacted through her work to the sexual misconduct allegations and the ensuing, wide-scale ...