Heidi Czerwiec is a poet and essayist and serves as Poetry Editor at North Dakota Quarterly. She is the author of two recent chapbooks—A Is For A-ké, The Chinese Monster, and Sweet/Crude: A Bakken Boom Cycle—and of the forthcoming collection Conjoining with Sable Books, and the editor of North Dakota Is Everywhere: An Anthology of Contemporary North Dakota Poets. She lives in Minneapolis, where she teaches with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and works with Motionpoems. Visit her at heidiczerwiec.com.
[W]hat’s so startling about these poems is how Dubrow spends her poetic energies grappling with the classical treatments of the past to thrilling and unexpected effects.