Michele Battiste is the author of the chapbook Raising Petra (Pudding House) and the full-length collection Ink for an Odd Cartography (Black Lawrence Press). The 2004 Poetry Fellow at Wichita State University, she is the recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and an AWP Intros Award.
She lives in New York City where she teaches for Gotham Writers' Workshop, raises money for an international nonprofit health organization, and shares a one-bedroom, fourth-floor walk-up with her husband and son.
We are pleased to announce inSPIREd Poetry Series featuring Slow the Appetite Down by Michele Battiste!
Order the first seven (7) selections in the inSPIREd Poetry Series + a bonus notebook for only $45.
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Slow the Appetite Down by Michele Battiste
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Praise for Slow the Appetite Down
In her third chapbook Michele Battiste presents poems of such a dynamic intelligence that the reader finds herself exhilarated: it’s like riding with the top down! The view expands to take in what was never expected: an old woman in a shoe, palendromic numbers, the pain of not quite being Humphrey Bogart. Even a poem about the long lines women endure at intermission. And when did you last read a poem about Kegel exercises? A wry benediction for a child in the womb places the whole world in perspective. Battiste has an exceedingly sharp eye and an even sharper wit. Smart, passionate, and complex, these poems remind us that our lives are far more exciting than we sometimes think.
—Kelly Cherry, author of Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems
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