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Poetry Sunday: “Anchor” in Women’s Voices for Change

August 10, 2015 by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet News Poems Reviews

Thanks to Rebecca Foust for featuring “Anchor” in her Poetry Sunday column at Women’s Voices for Change – and for her thoughtful, detailed look at this poem, and at free verse as a whole.

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The voice that guides us through this unknown territory is dependable and a bit confessional, unique, and unstoppable.”

—The California Journal of Women Writers

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—Bob Hicok

Stonestreet’s empathies of eye, her vision and revisionary glancings, let us undergo radical shifts in scale between the ‘burnished’ and the ‘broken’…. Stonestreet’s imagination is as tender as it is tough-minded.”

—Pimone Triplett

Lisa’s editorial eye goes to the core of a poem. She’s highly intuitive, sensitive to each poem’s potential for depth and power.”

—Athena Kashyap

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