A Reluctant Chronicling: Natalie Shapero’s Hard Child
“I typically hate discussing the past,” the speaker admits in the title poem, “Hard Child,” then a few poems later, a little more defensively—“I swear to God I hardly think of the past."
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Laura Page
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Laura Page is a graduate of Southern Oregon University and Editor in Chief of the poetry journal, Virga. She has reviewed many literary publications at The Review Review, and her own work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rust + Moth, Crab Creek Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and TINGE. She is the author of two chapbooks, Children, Apostates, (dgp, 2016) and Sylvia Plath in the Major Arcana (Anchor & Plume, forthcoming).
What It Means to Hold and Be Held in Jennifer Givhan’s Protection Spell
The book explores ambiguities—in terms of race, in terms of motherhood, but especially in terms of the body and the subconscious.