This poem is full of raw things, of ragged things, of the edges and shock of truth. How life includes death and wellness and illness and passion and hunger, all can coexist. There is a kind of Tao present in its telling, in its turning twist of lines and unexpected images.

TOE GOOD POETRY, on ROOT SOUP

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...Imagery of childbirth and weather has been necessarily mutated into a language of survival, set within a circular narrative that approaches the precipice of hopelessness. How does language bleed like this? How do we form these poems that are both the blade of the knife and the handle? I don’t know, but poems like this are continued evidence of poetry’s mysterious and transformational power.

WILDNESS, on STILLBORN GODHEAD

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Moira J., or Gaagé Dat'éhe (Quiet Crow), is an Indigenous writer who explores the messy world of being agender, queer, and biracial. They examine these relationships through poetry, origin stories, and creative nonfiction. They have their Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling. They reside in either Boston or Oregon. They are definitely married, and own a cat named Dana Scully.

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