Leslie McGrathโs interviews with poets appear regularly in The Writerโs Chronicle. Winner of the 2004 Pablo Neruda Prize for poetry, she is the author of Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage (2009), a poetry collection, and two chapbooks: Toward Anguish (2007) and By the Windpipe (2014.) Her poems have appeared in The Awl, Agni, The Common, Slate, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing and literature at Central Connecticut State University, and is series editor of The Tenth Gate, a new poetry imprint of The Word Works press.
Leslie McGrath is the author of Out From the Pleiades.
AboutOut from the Pleiades
โLeslie McGrathโsย Out from the Pleiadesย is a hybrid gem, a novella in verse that works utterly both as lyric poetry and as story. The life of protagonist Mina Kali, born to the Seven Sistersโa commune of โradical warrior womenโโunfolds with an epic sweep, from the moment Mina โraged forth from the dark red darkโ to her final love and loss. Out From the Pleiades is a rollicking, raucous, new myth, a classic with its head in Aristophanes and its satiric heart in the 1960s. You will read these poems aloud, laughing, and then find them sneakily haunting you.โ
โSusanne Antonetta
