Category Archives: Letter to Readers

A letter to the reader of Listening in Many Publics, by Jay Ritchie

Dear Reader, People often ask me: Why do you write poetry? I don’t think I have ever given a satisfying answer. To me, it’s like asking, Why do you watch the rain when it falls? Why do you listen to the wind when it blows through the trees? Why do you like marzipan? I write […]

A letter to the reader of NORMA, by Sarah Mintz

Dear Reader, I’d like to contextualize my book NORMA a little bit. NORMA came out of handwringers, a book of flash fiction published with Radiant Press in 2021. handwringers was, at least in part, a research project about my Ashkenazi ancestry, and the little I knew about it met with popular instantiations of that culture […]