Hag Dances

To change and heal takes great courage. To reconcile is to truly face yourself and ask the questions: Why am I angry, shameful, hateful and prejudiced? Why does fear have control of me so profoundly? Why is it so easy to move to prejudice, to be manipulative, to think of myself as better than? Susan Wismer's new collection of astounding poetry reconciles identity and truth, if truth can even be found. AUTHOR: Susan Wismer (she/her) is a queer poet who is grateful to live on Treaty 18 territory at the southern shore of Manidoo-zaagai'gan (Georgian Bay) in Ontario, Canada with two human partners and a very large dog. Recent work has been published in These Small Hours (ed. Lorna Crozier) a Wintergreen Press chapbook, Pinhole Poetry, Orbis International Literary Journal, Poetry Plans (Bell Press), Qwerty, Prairie Fire ,and Poets in Response to Peril (eds. Penn Kemp, Richard Sitoski). Her forthcoming collection of poetry, Hag Dances will be published by At Bay Press.