Sara Lefsyk (Of Escapism, Writing Residencies, and Ethel Zine)

01/16/23 • 53 min

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Sara Lefsyk is Head Ethel over at Ethel Zine & Micro Press. Her book We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds is published with Black Lawrence Press, 2018, and she has work previously published in Bateau, The Greensboro Review, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Poetry City, and Tinderbox among others.

Read: "When They Taught Me How to Slit the Bird," at Tinderbox

Purchase: We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and the Ethel Zine!

Read Also:

Leonora Carrington's short stories

Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing-World

Read: "When They Taught Me How to Slit the Bird," at Tinderbox

Purchase: We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and the Ethel Zine!

Read Also:

Leonora Carrington's short stories

Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing-World

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K. Iver (Of Queer Narrative, Negation, and Southern Elegy)

Read: "Family of Origin Rewrite: 1982" in The Common

Purchase: Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco (Milkweed Editions, 2023)

K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet from Mississippi. Their poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, TriQuarterly, The Adroit, and elsewhere. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry and is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. Iver is the 2021-2022 Ronald Wallace Fellow for Poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry from Florida State University.

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Stephanie Burt (Of Mermaids, Punctuation, and Queer Community Formation)

Read: "Whale Watch" at Turbine

Purchase: We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press, 2022)

Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poems and literary criticism, most recently WE ARE MERMAIDS (Graywolf, 2022), AFTER CALLIMACHUS: Poems and Translations (Princeton UP, 2020) and DON'T READ POETRY: A Book About How to Read Poems (Basic, 2019). In addition to poetry things, she writes about trans stuff and pop music and comic book superheroes for Comicsxf.com, the New Yorker and other fun venues. Her podcast about tabletop role-playing games is Team-Up Moves (teamupmoves.com).

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