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Luanne Castle

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Born
in southwest Michigan, The United States
July 20

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Plath, Lorde, Whitman, Jackson, Poe

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Luanne Castle’s chapbook Our Wolves was First Runner-up for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize 2024. Her award-winning full-length poetry collections are Rooted and Winged (Finishing Line 2022) and Doll God (Kelsay 2015), and her chapbook, Kin Types (Finishing Line 2017), was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Luanne Castle’s Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net-nominated poetry and prose have appeared in Copper Nickel, TAB, Verse Daily, Saranac Review, Bending Genres, The Ekphrastic Review, One Art, Sheila Na Gig, Feral Poetry, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Does it Have Pockets, South 85, Roi Fainéant, River Teeth, The Dribble Drabble Review, Flash Boulevard, and many other journals and anthologies. Luanne lives with five cats in Arizona ...more

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Luanne Castle After spending time researching family history and digitizing antique family photos, I became fascinated with how to bring the interior lives of my fe…moreAfter spending time researching family history and digitizing antique family photos, I became fascinated with how to bring the interior lives of my female ancestors into poems. I am putting together a chapbook of these poems about the hidden lives of these Dutch-American women from the 19th and early 20th centuries.(less)
Luanne Castle I have a backlog of memoirs, novels, and poetry I plan to review, but I also want to reread Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology because a poet wh…moreI have a backlog of memoirs, novels, and poetry I plan to review, but I also want to reread Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology because a poet who wrote a blurb for my forthcoming chapbook Kin Types compared my new work with that of Masters. Right now I am reading Ballistics by Billy Collins and The Cavalier Case by Antonia Fraser.(less)
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“Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothing
is immune.”
Luanne Castle, Doll God

“[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.”
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“The tongues of hell are dull.”
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