Chicks Dig Poetry

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

February 27, 2009

On Waiting

Amy King has put together a thoughtful response to David Orr's hubbub-inducing essay on "greatness" that ran in last Sunday...

February 23, 2009

Here & There

There seems to be a twinge of disappointment in the industry that sales figures for the commemorative chapbook of Elizabeth Alexander's...

February 17, 2009

It's coming...It's coming...

Can you write under pressure without breaking a sweat? Always telling friends that a crown of heroic sonnets comes easy? Do you dream of per...

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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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