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Rachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collections The Wolf (BOA Editions, forthcoming fall 2027); The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021); The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, the 2014 winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry at Texas Tech University Press and finalist for a National Jewish Book Award; and No Silence in the Fields, a chapbook from Blue Hour Press. Her poetry has recently appeared at Poetry Magazine, The Believer, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Rachel’s essays, criticism, and other articles have appeared, or will soon, at The Millions, The Poetry Foundation, LitHub, and numerous other outlets.
Reading Recommendations:
“Having it out with Melancholy” by Jane Kenyon
Portrait of a Woman on Fire, Dir. Céline Sciamma (film)
Aracelis Girmay’s The Black Maria
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Circe by Madeline Miller
Galatea by Madeline Miller
[Eugenio] Montale in English
Adrienne Rich
Anne Sexton
Virginia Woolf
Anaïs Nin
Sylvia Plath
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