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Description: Poet, editor, & multidisciplinary artist.
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elisabeth blair Bio Publications Consulting & Editing Classes & Workshops Newsletter Events Music Podcast Contact Bio Elisabeth Blair is a poet, editor, and workshop leader with an extensive background in music and the visual arts. Her publications include full-length collection because God loves the wasp (Unsolicited Press 2022), two chapbooks— We He She/It (Dancing Girl Press 2016) and without saying (Ethel Press 2020)—and poems in a variety of journals, including Harpur Palate , Feminist Studies , crea
A poetry memoir documenting the years the author spent within two "troubled teen" industry facilities.
Elisabeth Blair writes as a survivor of a sadistic and dehumanizing facility for “troubled teens”—or perhaps the word is “camp.” It certainly reminds us of the other, more famous camps, gulags, and re-education centers we’re aware of. Because Blair is also a brilliant poet, she can take us into the perceptions of the shattered person or, in this case, child. The child understands only the contours of coercion: “the storm wants specific things.” In fact, she no longer identifies as human, and, at times, tha
Gothic Funk
Listening to Ladies
lullabies & alarms
Programming Resources