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Posts by: Janice Northerns

Holding On and Letting Go: Rebecca Aronson’s Anchor

By Janice Northerns

January 25th, 2023

Gravity is what tethers us to the earth and to those we love, but it is also what we are constantly trying to escape. Anchor is about both these states—the holding on and the letting go—and the tension between them.

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Shining a Light on Sins of the South: A Review of Han VanderHart’s What Pecan Light

By Janice Northerns

June 8th, 2022

In What Pecan Light VanderHart seeks to address “the white ghosts / of the South” by bringing them to the light for all to see.

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Janice Northerns is the author of Some Electric Hum (Lamar University Literary Press, 2020), winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award from the University of Kansas, the Nelson Poetry Book Award, and a WILLA Literary Award Finalist in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Ploughshares, The Laurel Review, and Southwestern American Literature. She lives in southwest Kansas.

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