Currently Browsing: Erasure Poetry
On this day eleven years ago, Jennifer Sperry Steinorth published her poetry chapbook Forking the Swift. Originally published in 2010 through Michigan Writers Cooperative Press, Forking the Swift consists of twenty poems which range in topic from the creation of Earth to bear wrestling.
Since the success of her chapbook, Jennifer has gone on to publish two more collections.… read more.
Poet Jennifer Sperry Steinorth speaks on the poetic form of "erasure."
As I was writing the first chapter (“Sanora Babb: Challenging a Single Story of the Dust Bowl”), I was haunted by my grandmother’s ghost.