the old life
returns on six legs, or
spins a musty web as it roosts over
a poison pot
from "Settling In" at Poets.org
There is so much wonderful writing coming from women in California and Nevada, I want to cross and cross here, but today I would like to point readers to Jenny Factor. Jenny was praised in her first award-winning collection, Unraveling at the Name, for, “making form sing with idiosyncrasy,” and I like that phrasing. Her use of form is striking and original, and integrated with content in a seamless, organic, surprising way. She has a particular way of writing about motherhood, feminism, intimacy, solitude that reveals a life of deep consideration, the nuanced revelation of the everyday, and a clarity of emotion that is rare. -- Jennifer K. Sweeney
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