Mar 31, 2021
Imagine a collection of poems deftly organized around 8 emotional experiences. Imagine delving into each of those emotions and finding … you. Voices that speak to you. Lonely voices, strong voices, angry, curious.
Poems that you read with your heart and body. Poems that affect you.
This is YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE...
Mar 26, 2021
SOPHIA by Jen Goldman is a sensuous journey in to a world of where there are beautiful sounds like ‘gaggle of grandmother’s giggle…silicone sillies…the laughter is baked into the linguine’. And the indulgent, luxury of leather handbags, inky black fountain pens with gold edges and crisp, white notecards. Oh...
Mar 24, 2021
In OTHER WISE by Mary-Lou Bagley we see the complicated, strained relationship between Emily Donne and her emotionally manipulative mother, not just through the words but through the movement of these two bodies. Their physicality brings their relationship into action, as awkward and painful as...
Mar 23, 2021
SPREE WEEK DAY 2, we dive straight in at Chapter 1 of THE YEAR OF NEEDY GIRLS by Patricia Smith. Here, the stakes of the entire novel are set with a sure hand, in just three pages. Here we meet Deidre, one half of the main couple of Deidre and Sara Jane. Deirdre is a teacher in a town that’s just been cleaved through...