2020 O:JA&L Pamphlet Series
Editorials on Issues of Poetic Practice
Rachel Custer
Songs on the Way to God: A Theory of Poetics
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About the writer:
During 2019, Rachel Custer was the Poetry Editor and a reviewer and editorialist at O:JA&L. Her first full-length poetry collection, The Temple She Became, is available from Five Oaks Press. Other work has previously been published or is forthcoming in Rattle, OSU: The Journal, The American Journal of Poetry, B O D Y, [PANK], and The Antigonish Review. On February 13, 2019, Rachel Custer became a recipient of a 2019 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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