Cadence

by Hannah Stephenson

Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified.

Genres: Poetry

32 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published March 13, 2018

About the author

Hannah Stephenson is a poet, editor, and instructor living in Columbus, Ohio. She is a poetry blogger for The Huffington Post, and her poems have appeared in publications that include Hobart, Room, Contrary, MAYDAY, qarrtsiluni, and The Nervous Breakdown. Her full-length collection, In the Kettle, the Shriek, is available from Gold Wake Press, and she'd love to share it with you.

Recently, she served as Editor for The Ides of March: An Anthology of of Ohio Poets (Columbus Creative Cooperative), and she looks forward to co-editing The Best of the Midwest Poetry Anthology (with Okla Elliott, for New American Press).

She is the founder of Paging Columbus!, a literary arts monthly event series. If you are a writer in Columbus or swinging through Central Ohio, and you'd like to chat about reading for Paging Columbus, please get in touch.

Reviews

[Mike]

Oh, I just love Hannah Stephenson’s poetry. Here she writes about being a new mother, and in nearly every line there’s something I relate to deeply. What a lovely collection of poems, full of this beautiful contemplation, and that sense of trying to catch a moment and stretch it into infinity, knowing at the same time that it cannot last. Our hopes for our children, and our fears, these are things I think any parent knows intimately, and it’s all here on the page. Love, love, love this book.