Issue #7 of The Paramanu Pentaquark is LIVE and includes two poems and one musical composition by Elisabeth Blair. They are: “hands,” “motherlover,” and “the yet-to-be-born speak.” motherlover was performed by Mike Truesdell and Elisabeth Blair.
Issue #7 of The Paramanu Pentaquark is LIVE and includes two poems and one musical composition by Elisabeth Blair. They are: “hands,” “motherlover,” and “the yet-to-be-born speak.” motherlover was performed by Mike Truesdell and Elisabeth Blair.
Elisabeth Blair is a Michigan-born, Montréal-based poet and editor with an extensive background in music and the visual arts. She is the author of a poetry memoir, because God loves the wasp (Unsolicited Press 2022), which examines the years she spent as a youth in two abusive “troubled teen” industry facilities. She’s also published two chapbooks—We He She/It (Dancing Girl Press 2016) and without saying (Ethel Press 2020)—and poems in a variety of journals, including Harpur Palate, Feminist Studies, cream city review, and Juked. She has been artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and ACRE. In 2022 she received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to complete her second book, a poetry novel. www.elisabethblair.net.
(ed. Elisabeth is also a founding member and longtime contributor to the Gothic Funk National and Gothic Funk Press!)