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...occasional postcards from Washington, D.C. writer Sandra Beasley...

July 07, 2008

Gratitude

Thanks to Ron Slate for his review of Theories of Falling...

"...Displaying a large, feisty ambition as well as the talent to realize it, Sandra Beasley’s first book, Theories of Falling, reminds me of something Robert Frost wrote to B.F. Skinner in 1926: "All that makes a writer is the ability to write strongly and directly from some unaccountable and almost invincible personal prejudice." Beasley is so equipped. Her persona cultivates a precocious apprehension of the nature of intimacy. She's the one who cuts through conventional perception to reveal the deeper dynamic..."
Posted by Sandra at 9:25 AM

2 comments:

Maggie May said...

yeah! go Beasley!

3:34 PM
Sandra said...

Thanks! It was a big thrill to find it online.

10:01 AM

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Sandra
Washington, D.C.
My collections include Made to Explode; Count the Waves; I Was the Jukebox, which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Theories of Falling, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize. In 2018, I served as the editor for Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance. I am also the author of a disability memoir, Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales From an Allergic Life, which doubles as a cultural history of food allergy. My prose has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, and multiple anthologies. www.sandrabeasley.com
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My Books

My Books

Prose Online

  • "I Am Cat Lady" (Virginia Quarterly Review)
  • "To Catch a Sunset" (The American Scholar)
  • "Big Break: A Multiple-Choice Test" (Grist)
  • "Entering the Whirlpool" (American Poets)
  • "The Power of Claiming My Identity as a Disabled Writer" (LitHub)
  • "Flexing the Form: Contemporary Innovation in the Sestina" (American Poets)
  • "Calculated Risks" (Virginia Quarterly Review)
  • "People Say Washington, DC, Isn’t a Creative Place for Artists. They’re Wrong." (Washingtonian)
  • “Flint and Tinder – Understanding the Difference Between ‘Poetry of Witness’ and ‘Documentary Poetics'” (Poetry Northwest)
  • "What It’s Like Dining Out With Extreme Allergies and Dietary Restrictions" (Washington City Paper)
  • "When Even One Drink Could Kill You" (Washington Post)
  • "Tony Rice, Guitar Hero" (New York Times Magazine)
  • "Prioritizing Place" (Poetry Foundation)
  • "A Good Year" (Gluten-Free & More)
  • "'Kilroy Was Here': Poetry and Metaphor as Signature" (American Poets)
  • On Family & Project Mercury (Lofty Ambitions)
  • "Minefield Loving" (Psychology Today)
  • "An 'Allergy Girl' Comes Out of Her Bubble" (Wall Street Journal)

Poems Online

  • Academy of American Poets
  • Southeast Review
  • The Arkansas International
  • Bennington Review
  • Waxwing Literary Journal
  • Split This Rock
  • The Nation
  • Gravy
  • POETRY
  • AGNI
  • Blackbird

The Washington Post

  • "D.C. needs a poet laureate" (Local Opinions)
  • "Maybe abusive authors don’t belong on my bookshelf. But what about in my classroom?" (PostEverything Perspective)
  • "Poets in the Time of Trump" (Magazine, feature article)
  • "When even one drink could kill you" (Opinions)
  • "Everything's Cookin'" (Magazine, feature article)
  • "A Poem for Miami" (Magazine, feature article)
  • "American Idol" (Magazine, feature article)
  • "Show and Tell" (Magazine, XX File column)
  • "The Close Call" (Magazine, XX File column)
  • "Art of the Bluff" (Magazine, XX File column)

Verse Universe

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    5 years ago
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    6 years ago
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    10 months ago
  • Kristin Berkey-Abbott
    Saturday Snippets with Apocalyptic Reading
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  • Laurel Snyder
    All manner of good things!!!
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    11 months ago
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    4 months ago
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    There's a vase of daffodils on my table, and snow on the ground outside: welcome to DC's confused, confusing spring. One of my st...
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