Silence

Silence

This poem was published in 2018 by Indolent Books. “Silence” is part of their What Rough Beasts a poem-a-day series. The series was motivated by the presidential election of 2016, but the poems in the series are more often lyric than overtly political. The resistance to our white nationalist administration lies in the persistence of poetry to create a space for freedom. “Silence” is about the tension between the expectation that women should be soft and quiet alongside the driving need to speak our truths.

Indolent Books publishes innovative, provocative, and risky work by poets and writers who are queer, trans, nonbinary (or gender nonconforming), intersex, women (of all races and ethnicities), people of color (of all genders), people living with HIV, people with histories of addiction, abuse, and other traumatic experiences, and other poets and writers who are underrepresented or marginalized, or whose work has particular relevance to issues of racial, social, economic, and environmental justice.

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