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Cassandra W

Jul 11, 20231 min read

Review of Miah Jeffra's American Gospel at Lambda Literary

Great read, I unpack it here.

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Cassandra W

Jul 11, 20231 min read

Two poems up at Porcupine Lit

A lit mag about teaching and education, by educators who are poets. Here.

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Cassandra W

Jul 11, 20231 min read

New poem up at the Crawfish...

...a cool asf queer journal out of the south. Read it here.

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Cassandra W

Jul 11, 20231 min read

"Love. A Story" up at Variant Lit

Symbiotic mutualisms. Read it here Isn't that all love is--symbiotic mutualism with oxytocin?

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Cassandra W

Jul 11, 20231 min read

"Two Queens in Summer" up at Passengers

First of all, the crew here unpacked my poem in their podcast, and it was delightful. Read it or hear me read it here. #Pride You can...

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Cassandra W

Jul 11, 20231 min read

New wolf poem up at West Trade Review

Desire baby, desire. Here.

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Cassandra W

Jul 11, 20231 min read

Two poems in the Ilanot Review

I love this international journal and it was a treat to read with these writers. The WANT issue. On the youtube recording, I'm sick as a...

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Cassandra W

Jul 11, 20231 min read

"Wolf Who is Not a Wolf Plays Board Games" up at Mud Season Review

I like this wolf poem very much and over the course of its development, it looked very different. https://mudseasonreview.com/2022/11/the...

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Cassandra W

Jul 11, 20231 min read

Wolf Suite up in Conjunctions

A dream publication, Conjunctions. You can read the four poems here.

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Cassandra W

Jul 11, 20231 min read

"Chaser" up at The Lincoln Review

I am fond of this one--don't know why-- it's about those men who hit on me, and other trans-people online--chasers. Here. This is an...

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Cassandra W

Jul 11, 20231 min read

New wolf poem up On The Seawall

Many thanks to Ron Slate for giving this prose poem a home!

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Cassandra W

Feb 25, 20231 min read

This is me fangirling over Jos Charles

A review for Plume, here. I could listen to her talk for hours, poetry, academics, brilliant. Cool asf.

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Cassandra W

Feb 25, 20231 min read

New poem in the new Michigan Quarterly Review

Listen to me read "States". Also, probably the closest I'll ever be to Carl Phillips. I made many submitting mistakes with this poem--for...

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Cassandra W

Feb 25, 20231 min read

New essay up in Superstition Review

Ultimately, an observation about how teachers' bodies are tools of the state.

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Cassandra W

Feb 25, 20231 min read

Two poems in the new Coachella Review

One wolf poem and a tree/queer the woods poem.

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Cassandra W

Feb 25, 20231 min read

"What the Wolf Fears" in Blue Mountain Review

Many thanks to Nicole Tallman for including this poem in the new Blue Mountain Review.

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Cassandra W

Feb 25, 20231 min read

A pair of poems at Poetry i$ Currency

Two queer-ecology inspired poems.https://poetrycurrency.com/feature/cassandra-whitaker-poems/ This perspective of ecology resonates, for...

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Cassandra W

Oct 5, 20221 min read

A suite of Wolf Poems up in The Evergreen Review

So happy to be included in The Evergreen Review, which is a legendary subversive literary journal. What a thrill. Two of the three are...

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Cassandra W

Oct 5, 20221 min read

Two zombie poems in the new Daily Drunk zine MegaBytes

They were written in order, months apart,"Gardening With Assault Rifles" is an homage to Manhunt, the novel by Gretchen Felker-Martin,...

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Cassandra W

Oct 5, 20221 min read

Best of the Net nom from Rogue Agent

who changed my name and everything! That was so amazing. Read Two Boys In a Room In a Disintegration Loop

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