'Women are often just getting started in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond, and these women have just as much to offer as young people.'
; work published by NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian and more; numerous awards, readings, videos, interviews, events, collaborations and more. features “four choral ‘messages in a bottle’ based on poems by Melissa Studdard—a kind of time capsule reflecting some of the major worries and issues of our time,” according to the liner notes. COVID, the climate crisis, Black Lives Matter,.
In “Chorus: The Garden in Philomela’s Mouth” I was thinking about victim blaming. It’s the first of a series of chorus poems that thread through the manuscript. Like in a Greek tragedy, this poetic chorus is a collective voice, and in the case of this particular manuscript, they are a gossipy, judgmental society.
Sadly this is work that must be done with intention, because the canon has long restricted literary empathy to a repetitive and limited experience of the world. The people we’ve seen privileged by literature are so often those who were already privileged by life. This is not only wrong; it’s dangerous for people whose experiences, and therefore, lives, are not being represented and valued.
I’m not yet all the way brave, but reading Lorde shook me up and startled me out of a sort of debilitating over-politeness. She made me realize that it’s not only my right—it’s my responsibility—to speak my truth.
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