The Latest

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade exchange verses in dialogue throughout a fraught year. The pandemic the U.S. election gun violence and the loss of feminist icons Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Helen Reddy forefront a series of collaborations in which the two poets face isolation together. These couplets mirror their two voices just as the recursions of this ancient poetic form mirror our recent lonely and global routine. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Latest </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a project of resilience writing through the dark days with humor and hope.</span></p><p></p>