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Sam Zimmerman
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Chronically ill and chronically over it.
Poet.
In love with all that is dark, confessional, spiritual, and grotesque.
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Well. Just saying.
January 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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I'm trying to get back into reading after being forced to read so many books I didn't enjoy and many books a week throughout undergrad and grad school. Being stuck in this weird anti-literary funk is so weird.
December 30, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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No heat for over a week. Maintenance is working on it, but my fridge stopped working. I lost all of my food on there today and now have water leaking into my light fixture in the bathroom. Beyond angry.

Happy Holidays to me, I guess.
December 24, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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“The body is a toolset for action and insight”: An Interview With Sarah Sarai
Imagine Jane Eyre as a prose poem. While there’s enough struggle, cruelty, and nobility therein, I don’t see it as other than a novel.
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December 21, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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“The poems themselves might be the glitter”: An Interview With Bonnie Jill Emanuel
When I was young, my family would take yearly trips to Brooklyn, where my father was raised and spent many years of his life before he decided to take on upstate New York. On these trips, my siblin…
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December 21, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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“We, too, will be quaint figures of the past”: An Interview with Lauren Hilger
I can only speak to my embodied lived experience. And I’m perhaps revealing my own identity through my allusions.
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December 21, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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“I have a love-hate relationship with self-help books”: An Interview with Lisa Mottolo
They’re kind of corny and can get away with being poorly written, as long as they are conveying valuable information. They’re the opposite of poetry. Poetry must be well-written and can get away wi…
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December 21, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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“This will be my last public statement for a very long time”: An Interview with Adam Tavel
Like many, I went in search of fellowship but merely found another cloying marketplace.
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December 21, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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“No, thank you. I’ll take the witch any day”: An Interview with Caroline Hagood
I think most women with a complex inner life will at some point be labeled difficult.
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December 21, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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“The ‘I’ in my poems changes from poem to poem”: An Interview with Cynthia Atkins
People can wrongly presume in a poem, as opposed to fiction, that the speaker is always the up close and personal I. And of course, there’s you, in the second person, and that one might be the rawe…
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December 21, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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“What is poetry without its readers?”: An Interview with Elizabeth M. Castillo
One of the biggest problems in literature these days is that the vast majority of people find poetry inaccessible.
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December 21, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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“I try to not fall into nostalgia unnecessarily”: An Interview with Robert Krut
When you ask if I am someone “who likes to play with the metaphysical ghosts that words have to offer,” I nod my head, then tilt it a bit to rearrange the concept slightly—I think I am someone who …
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December 21, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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“Everyone comes to erasure for different reasons”: An Interview with Isobel O’Hare
A border wall is a method of keeping people away, of denying them a voice, of literal erasure from American life.
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December 21, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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“our pain doesn’t need to be lonely”: An Interview with Joanna C. Valente
our pain doesn’t need to be lonely
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December 21, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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“Sally = mastodons, we’ve forgotten them both!”: An Interview with Christina Olson
I started as poet, then I started working in CNF, and now I’m hanging out in their in-between space. It’s a good place to spend time, I think.
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December 21, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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“The grotesque is what repulses and attracts you at once”: An Interview with Dylan Krieger
The grotesque is what repulses and attracts you at once. I can only hope my work participates in that.
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December 21, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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I am looking forward to hopefully connecting with some other writers and like-minded people on here!
December 20, 2024 at 6:21 PM