Renee Emerson

There’s been some noise on twitter this week about erasure poetry, so I’m going to throw in my two cents. For those who do not know what “erasure poetry” is, it is when a poet blacks out or “erases” words from an original source text to create a poem (examples HERE). Sometimes the poet will…

I wrote 30 poems in 30 days again this April. As my writing partner, Heather, can attest–it was tough. There were some days I doubled-up, after missing the deadline the day before. There were some days where what I sent her was less poetic than some texts. At the end of the month though, I…

I have a set of poems in the new issue of Bombay Literary Magazine (and don’t skip the editor’s introduction to the issue, it is worth the read!) These poems have an intimacy too exquisite to remain unknown –  they open us to the stark factuality of loss that speaks for itself and will not…