You're Gonna Hear Me Roar

Writing as an act of bravery

I attended a little talk over the lunch hour last Wednesday. Poet and novelist Jill Alexander Essbaum joined a small group of writers via remote video conference to talk about poetry and the poems in her collection Would-Land. At some point, the conversation turned to phrasing—someone asked Essbaum how she decides to word things the way she does.

Essbaum…