“Pethetic Little Thing”
What you have here are poems, artwork, and essays, most by self-proclaimed angsty teens, and some by adults who were once angsty teens and still kind of feel like angsty teens. I wanted to hash out the fear so many of us have of writing and reading poetry, which is really a fear of seeming like an angsty teen. I wanted emotion and watercolor and tiny handwriting, void of any self-aware cringing or patronizing pity-smiling, but not commendable only by virtue of its sincerity.
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Poetry Magazine: JULY/AUGUST 2015
Contributions by Amy Newman, Paul Batchelor, Emily Carney, Alice Notley, derek beaulieu, Naomi Morris, and more.
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