All posts by Rachel Richardson

October 28th, 2009

A Squared-Off Landscape Representing the World

village lifeA Village Life is the work of a mature poet looking out at the world from a window, but now concerned with the larger cycles in which she participates, instead of the singular life in a petri dish.

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July 3rd, 2009

Loitering in the Wrong Places

wright-coverThe book, with its halting, unbeautiful, disjointed lines, proves her awareness of the difficulty of writing poetry about war, trade, immigration, Hurricane Katrina, and George Bush. These are intensely politicized issues, claimed by a blunt, politicized language. …more

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Rachel Richardson's poems have appeared in the New England Review, Southern Review, Ninth Letter, Memorious, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. A recent Stegner Fellow, she has led poetry workshops in prisons, elementary schools, and universities, and currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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