The author of Mock Heart: New & Selected Poems (Knopf, 2026) encourages poets to embrace fictional speakers in their work.
“I sing into your ear sweet whispers you mistake for your own thoughts.” —T. Geronimo Johnson, author of The Occidental Book of the Dead
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In Sophie Klahr’s second poetry collection, Two Open Doors in a Field (The Backwaters Press,...
“I often use the metaphor of Perseus and the head of Medusa when I speak...
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