Poetry. "Grounded in our contemporary culture, where wealth and power are being redefined, Fleegal's poems express the anger of a generation disenfranchised by its presumed privilege. She unceremoniously exposes an america that has lost its status as a proper noun, and she argues for the right to 'love with a capital V.' These are statements of protest, cries for solidarity—but cannot be mistaken for slogans. Each poem is a sharp-edged gem crafted into a collection that is in dialogue with itself and with the reader: where 'I don't' follows 'I do' and 'she can't' leads to 'you can.'"—Ren Powell

Author City: Milwaukee, WI USA

Stacia M. Fleegal is the author of Anatomy of a Shape -Shifter (WordTech, 2010), VERSUS (BlazeVOX [books], 2011), and the chapbooks The Lines Are Not My Friends (second place, Cervena Barva Press chapbook competition, 2010) and A Fling with the Ground (Finishing Line Press 2007). She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009 and 2010. Her poems have recently appeared in Fourth River, decomP, The Louisville Review, Skidrow Penthouse, Pemmican, Blue Collar Review, and The Kerf. She co-founded and co-edits both Imaginary Friend Press and the online literary journal Blood Lotus.

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