Lannie Stabile : part one

Lannie Stabile (she/her), a queer Detroiter, often says while some write like a turtleneck sweater, she writes like a Hawaiian shirt. A finalist for the 2019/2020 Glass Chapbook Series and semifinalist for the Button Poetry 2018 Chapbook Contest, Lannie's first published collection, Little Masticated Darlings, is now out with Wild Pressed Books. Individual works are published/forthcoming in Entropy, Pidgeonholes, Glass Poetry, Okay Donkey, and more. Lannie currently holds the position of Managing Editor at Barren Magazine and is a member of the MMPR Collective. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee.

How does a poem begin?

A poem begins with a whimper, I suppose. Or perhaps that red-hot wave of ire undulating behind my ears when I watch the news. Maybe it grows fat and vibrant from an infinite field of anxiety. I’d even go as far as saying a poem begins in a bog of defeat.