“The first time I tried reading any of these poems aloud, I discovered that they had effectively broken my writing practice.” In this virtual lecture for the 2021 Creative Capital Artist Retreat, Simone White talks about the writing process for her latest poetry collection, or, on being the other woman (Duke University Press, 2022), which is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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