Welcome to LINE LEVEL CHAT! Launched in 2023, LINE LEVEL is a monthly column started by writer, editor, and educator Joanna Acevedo, focusing on craft lessons from the recent or forthcoming work of contemporary poets of color. LINE LEVEL CHAT…
There is something addictive and fantastical about Peihe Feng’s “Autobiography of the Fox Woman.” The poem, written by the Fox Woman herself, supposedly provides insight into the mystical and mysterious life of Daji, who is explained to be the paramour…
Welcome to LINE LEVEL CHAT! Launched in 2023, LINE LEVEL is a monthly column started by writer, editor, and educator Joanna Acevedo, focusing on craft lessons from the recent or forthcoming work of contemporary poets of color. LINE LEVEL CHAT…
Christian Paulisich’s “Aftermath,” veers in an out of focus. The voice of the speaker is haunting in their self awareness. We see their consciousness of craft in the deliberate inversion and observation of the simile and metaphor they employ from…
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