Month: February 2016

Trauma and the Obligations of Poetry: A Conversation with Harold Schweizer

By Laura Solomon

Laura Solomon (LS): Your poem “Shayma Interviewed by a Medical Red Cross Staff Member in Corigliano Calabro” begins with an epigraph from a story that appeared in the Independent:

“A ‘ghost ship’ carrying hundreds of Syrian refugees including pregnant

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Laura Solomon, public outreach and digital projects manager at The Georgia Review, is currently co-executive director at the Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst and is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Hermit (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011).