Jacqueline Winter Thomas is a contributing editor at Eratio and a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal. Her first book of poems, The Other Side of the River, is a finalist for the New Issues in Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in The Journal, Green Mountains Review, DIAGRAM, Barrelhouse, Tinderbox, Open House, Redivider, TAB, Wildness, New South, and North American Review among others. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and has attended The School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. She teaches classes in poetry and critical theory, and writes at heteroglossia.tumblr.com.
“I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use. It was without end or reason. The most beautfiul things in it, a flower or a song, as well as the most compelling, a desire or a thought, were pointless. So great a sorrow. And I knew that the only rest from my anxiety—for I had been trembling even in infancy—lay in acknowledging and absorbing this sadness.” — Hayden Carruth, Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays
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