I wrote about my first heroes for Project Room Seattle, in anticipation of #AWP2014
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Poetry Magazine and “Khaleesi Says,” has Kickassery!!
Editor of Poetry Magazine, Don Share, shared this online and I’m grateful. Kickassery indeed!! I’m proud to be a part of it.
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Grateful for this!
KHALEESI SAYS
By Leah Umansky
Game of Thrones
In this story, she is fire-born:
knee-deep in the shuddering world.
In this story, she knows no fear,
for what is fractured is a near-bitten star,
a false-bearing tree,
or a dishonest wind.
In this story, fear is a house gone dry.
Fear is not being a woman.
I’m no ordinary woman, she says.
My dreams come true.
And she says and she is
and I say, yes, give me that.
(Today’s poem originally appeared via The Poetry Foundation/POETRY Magazine and appears here today with permission from the poet.)
Leah Umansky’s first book of poems, Domestic Uncertainties, is out now by BlazeVOX [Books.] Her Mad-Men inspired chapbook, Don Dreams and I Dream is forthcoming from Kattywompus Press in early 2014. She has been a contributing writer for BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG and Tin House, a…
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My copy of the January issue of Poetry Magazine came featuring three of my #GoT poems.
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I am clearly #teamstark.
Read two more of my Game of Thrones poems in this month’s POETRY MAGAZINE.
(c) Poetry Magazine 2014
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My interview with poet, and friend, Nin Andrews. Read it, here.
Nin Andrews is a great poet and person. She’s kind, creative, funny and genuine. She’s been a friend of mine for some time now, and she’s someone I really admire because of her boldness as a poet. She was one of the first prose poets I was introduced, the first poet I ever read who wrote poems about orgasms, and a poet who is always publishing and always writing new and interesting poems. With her every book, and her every project, I am always eager to see what she’ll do next.
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Leah Umansky: As a woman and a poet, would you consider yourself a feminist? If so, when do you think you first started thinking of yourself that way?
Nin Andrews: It’s hard to know when something starts. You know? But I think I have been a feminist for most of my life.
But when did it begin?
Was…
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A friend bought me this today at the UWS Flea Market. She said it is GOOD LUCK for my upcoming chapbook, Don Dreams and I Dream. I will surely bring it to AWP2014 in Seattle.
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