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Two Poems by Laura Orem

By | 2018-04-14T16:57:20-07:00 December 14th, 2017|Categories: Issue 51: 14 Dec 2017|Tags: , , , |

Letter from Guantanamo Seasons don’t matter except for the discomfort they bring. June is just hotter. The Caribbean thuds against Cuba, steaming like soup, saltier than our tears, if anyone cried here. Whether we bear it or not, the pain continues. The interrogator takes his work as seriously as Michelangelo considered the perfect pink of [...]

Introducing our newest poetry editor, Laura Orem

By | 2017-09-13T14:57:04-07:00 September 14th, 2017|Categories: Issue 40: 14 Sep 2017|Tags: , |

Writers Resist is delighted—again—to introduce a new poetry editor: Laura Orem is joining Ruth Nolan in our pursuit of resistance poetry. Laura is a poet, essayist and visual artist. She's the author of Resurrection Biology (Finishing Line Press 2017) and the chapbook Castrata: a Conversation (Finishing Line Press 2014). Laura received an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College [...]