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Jane Hirshfield: “The balance between meeting our larger, broken world and writing the poems that arise in you to be written, and the nerve-connections that make of the personal and the larger world one body.”
Eavan Boland: “I now know that I began writing in a country where the word woman and the word poet were almost magnetically opposed...In a certain sense, I found my poetic voice by shouting across the distance.”
Heather Clark: “It is no accident that Plath killed herself on the day she was supposed to enter a British psychiatric ward.”
Arthur Evans (quote from Peter Muise in the May-June 2020 issue of The G&LR): “...Arthur Evans... argued that many of the alleged witches executed during the witchcraft trials were actually LGBT people.”
Check out these poets reading their poems in this special video-magic issue: Lesléa Newman, Mark McDonnell, Jae Rossi, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Katherine Fallon, Imogen Cook, and Colleen McKee. Here are three more videos:
BUFFALO GALS BAND from Eureka Springs, Arkansas, made this great video:
CLOSET CASES: QUEERS ON WHAT WE WEAR (I'm in this book) made this great video:
With Mark McDonnell, I started an open mic channel, THE BALLSIANS, which inspired me to make this video:
Want to see more poetry videos? Check out WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY!
Mary Meriam, Editor
Lavender Review
Hannah Barrett, Invasion of the Pines (2015)
