Tipton Poetry Journal – Winter 2022
Days of 1978 Anne Whitehouse I remember the bad behavior of the male professors in my graduate writing program, how they preyed on young women, who were predisposed to hope their teachers valued their talents and would help their careers. Writing is seduction. Words have a physical body that comes to life when wielded by poets. When intentions are dishonest, words become weapons, and everything gets confused, emotions running like rainwater in rivulets trying to find a course or make one.
Anne Whitehouse’s recent poetry collection is Outside from the Inside (Dos Madres Press, 2020), and her recent chapbook is Escaping Lee Miller (Ethel Zine and Micro Press, 2021).. Anne is also the author of a novel, Fall Love, and she has been publishing a series of essays about Edgar Allan Poe. She lives in New York City and Columbia County, New York. www.annewhitehouse.com
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