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Risa Denenberg

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Risa Denenberg lives on the Olympic peninsula in Washington state where she works as a nurse practitioner. She is a co-founder of Headmistress Press; curator at The Poetry Café Online; and the poetry reviews editor at River Mouth Review. Her most recent publications include the full-length poetry collection, slight faith (MoonPath Press, 2018) and the chapbook, Posthuman, finalist in the Floating Bridge 2020 chapbook competition.
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“I Was Born to This Poetry”: The Book of Mirrors by Yun Wang

  • Risa Denenberg
  • August 24, 2022
I hear the gossip of flowers / insatiable in their lust / Consider the cages that are our bodies
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Not Defined by Grief: A Conversation with Julie Marie Wade

  • Risa Denenberg
  • August 16, 2021
Julie Marie Wade discusses her newest poetry collection, SKIRTED.
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Wired for Wordplay: A Conversation with Kelli Russell Agodon

  • Risa Denenberg
  • May 26, 2021
Kelli Russell Agodon discusses her new collection, DIALOGUES WITH RISING TIDES.
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What Could Be: All Its Charms by Keetje Kuipers

  • Risa Denenberg
  • August 21, 2020
The decision to have a child is fraught at the best of times.
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The Brink of Unbearable: Careen by Grace Shuyi Liew

  • Risa Denenberg
  • October 25, 2019
[I]t is as if I am learning a new language with each poem.
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Transcending Metaphor: Jenifer Sang Eun Park’s Autobiography of Horse

  • Risa Denenberg
  • August 2, 2019
To call [AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HORSE] unique is an understatement.
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Show without Telling: Stay by Tanya Olson

  • Risa Denenberg
  • May 31, 2019
[I]f you want maximum pleasure from this collection, then, you will want to listen closely.
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Eliminated to Illuminated: Tarfia Faizullah’s Registers of Illuminated Villages

  • Risa Denenberg
  • March 29, 2019
Faizullah drills language for meaning.
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Delicious Courage: Lynn Melnick’s Landscape with Sex and Violence

  • Risa Denenberg
  • February 15, 2019
Melnick’s craft is in the extreme language and unfamiliar syntax which blends a brew that, while bitter, is also intoxicating.
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Raising the Dead: Claudia Castro Luna’s Killing Marías

  • Risa Denenberg
  • December 21, 2018
The poems in Killing Marías sustain a deep reverence for women and are a call to action for the world.
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Personal to Universal: Robin Becker’s The Black Bear Inside Me

  • Risa Denenberg
  • October 26, 2018
Becker stands firmly on the shoulder of earlier lesbian-feminist poets while inhabiting and describing our current era of new challenges and old shibboleths.
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A Legacy of Wisdom: The Final Voicemails by Max Ritvo

  • Risa Denenberg
  • August 24, 2018
Is death a miracle or destruction?
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