Tag: Candice Louisa Daquin
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Revisit Candice Louisa Daquin’s The Abortionist’s Chair
In light of the United State’s Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, I invite you to revisit Candice Louisa Daquin’s powerful poem “The Abortionist’s Chair”. Candice is our 2022 ROAR winner; go read the rest of her work and her inspiring Q&A here. Stay brave. Love, Renwick Berchild, GLJ Editor The Abortionist’s Chair Candice…
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“[D]on’t be precious.”: Q & A With Candice Louisa Daquin, our 2022 ROAR Showcase Finale
“[D]on’t be precious.”: Q & A With Candice Louisa Daquin Q. What is your earliest memory of poetry? A: I have a very bad memory of early years but I do remember the poem “Small Hands” by Walt Whitman* being spoken in a Woody Allen movie and me being really deeply affected. I think it…
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Day Seven, ROAR Showcase: Absolution by Candice Louisa Daquin
Absolution I don’t know if there’s hope When friend turns foe I don’t know Where in separation Yoke and embryo Glistening placenta gouache The painter may Render this potential life Legacy of strife In verdant whisker I could have been born Elsewhere or not Chemistry. cellular change Alchemists with tears as coat of arms We…
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Day Six, ROAR Showcase: For my first friend in America by Candice Louisa Daquin
For my first friend in America Your hand covers mine we pose for the camera and smile a 100 watt smile The American Way since immigrating here, I have learned how to park a truck discovered that shorts are not as anathema in Texas as in Cannes I understand, ordering drinks you size up, trying…
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Day Five, ROAR Showcase: What kind of lesbian would I be if I were born today by Candice Louisa Daquin
What kind of lesbian would I be if I were born today I see your pictures on social media a part of me is envious of your freedom even though women many years before either of us had absolutely no freedom and only those with enough money could consider taking a woman as their lover…
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Day Four, ROAR Showcase: The Abortionist’s Chair by Candice Louisa Daquin
The Abortionist’s Chair Behold the abortionist’s chair not leather, for leather is thirsty this chair is wreathed in glossy rubber that can be wiped down and disinfected to mute the smell of blood this chair does not owe its shape to comfort, nor seeks it nay, the very contour is built upon a premise bringing…
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Day Three, ROAR Showcase: I knew my invisibility by Candice Louisa Daquin
I knew my invisibility I knew my invisibility when the lady next to my mother in the French nursing ward took me in her arms out of pity for there was nobody there who cared to rock a crying child, not wanted by hedonists who erred in pregnancy I knew my invisibility when my mother…
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Day Two, ROAR Showcase: Le rapas by Candice Louisa Daquin
Le rapas The way she cleans, puts away the day into lopsided drawers that do not shut well even on easy days their contents lost in shuffle and exploit planes over head, mournful drone, a whine of grief as they attain height her hands chapped from slapping herself back to life rivets run like zippers…
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Day One, ROAR Showcase: Amulet by Candice Louisa Daquin
Amulet No they didn’t write poems about you and they didn’t write poems about me they didn’t write poems about us we were a label, a provocation, pornography perhaps sometimes a curse, misfortune something to deride in that lazy way people who find it amusing to poke fun, do I imagine them now sipping on…
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GLJ’s First ROAR Showcase 2022: The Indomitable Candice Louisa Daquin
Green Lion Journal is proud to announce our first ever ROAR Showcase: Candice Louisa Daquin. Over the next week GLJ will post Candice’s poems and her Q&A. Her work will continue to be featured on GLJ in the ROAR showcase until December 1st, 2022. To be ‘indomitable’ by definition is to be impossible to subdue…
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