Poetry Magazine
Easter
Source: Poetry (January 2011).
Biography
Born in Bay City, Texas, poet and editor Jill Alexander Essbaum was educated at the University of Houston, the University of Texas, and the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest.
Influenced by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Simon Armitage, and Sylvia Plath, Essbaum’s poems bring together sex, divinity, and wordplay, blithely working with received forms and displaying a nuanced attention to rhyme and meter. Speaking to this unusual . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Religion, Faith & Doubt, Christianity
POET’S REGION U.S., Southwestern
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