Valerie Wetlaufer is the author of Mysterious Acts by My People (Sibling Rivalry Press 2014) and editor of Adrienne: A Poetry Journal of Queer Women. She lives in Iowa.
bustling with bombs, with Bond girls, with balmy weather. Fawns stayed very still, immovable even from fright, and their mothers taught them never to stray into the road. We sat perched on chairs, binoculars in hand, spying their spots, nestled next to land mines. In the bathtub, I peel lengths of skin from my… Read more →
I recommend the 2002 anthology of essays on Hybrid Maternity ed. by Prudence DeWitt and Angela Burney for its attention to syntactical fidelity and matrimonial pathology. Traditionally men transformed prior to sexual encounters with women. Zeus was notorious, for instance, for turning himself into a variety of animals. When he encounters Leda, he turns himself into the swan. It was far more… Read more →