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Poetry

Michele Evans

Featured Title: purl
Genre: poetry
Author: Michele Evans
purl

Using a mixture of poetic forms varying in subject, shape, style, and size, purl reimagines timeless myths from Homer’s Odyssey. Stitched from classical translations, this poignant collection from Michele Evans, resurrects feminine forces from ancient Greek mythology and relocates them in modern portraits and landscapes, pastoral and urban. Invoking Phillis Wheatley Peters as her muse, Evans amplifies a chorus of the marginalized: queens and maidens, mothers and daughters, wives and mistresses, goddesses and slaves, “muffled voices rarely heard.”

About Michele Evans

Michele Evans is the author of “februaries” (Yellow Arrow Publishing, 2026) and “purl” (Finishing Line Press, 2025). She is a fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.), poet, English and Creative Writing teacher, and adviser for “Unbound,” an award-winning high school literary arts magazine. This Watering Hole Fellow studied at Smith College, King’s College London, and the Graduate School at the University of Maryland. Despite always wearing the color black, she loves blueberries, blue hydrangeas, blues musicians, and Blue Mountain coffee.

Instagram: @awordsmithie

 

Author Website:

https://www.awordsmithie.com/