MyOther Tongue offers up an elderly mother’s particular, business-like attributes for consideration in an extended meditation on her work ethic.
Krystal Languell
Krystal Languell was born in Indiana and currently lives in Chicago, Illinois. She is the author of three books, including the forthcoming Quite Apart (University of Akron Press, 2019), and six chapbooks. She's been awarded fellowships and residencies from The Poetry Project, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and was a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Finalist in Poetry.
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Alice Notley’s Crystal City of In-betweenness
Alice Notley’s recent book, Benediction, an epic written in ragged grammatical form, further concretizes her work to repossess the historically male-dominated epic poem as a feminist genre.
