"Poetry comes with anger, hunger, and dismay. It does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together and would appall them if it did." - Christopher Morley
Born and raised in Chicago, Janine Harrison is the author of Turning 50 on El Camino de Santiago, Weight of Silence, and If We Were Birds. Her work has appeared in Veils, Halos, Not Like the Rest of Us, Gyroscope Review, and "Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women." She lives in Highland, Indiana, and is a former Highland Poet Laureate. She joined us from her home via Zoom.
Janine reads "Weight of Silence," "Refugees," and "Last Morning in a Shithole."
