Through Clenched Teeth

THROUGH CLENCHED TEETH is an anthology of lyric writing by some of today's most exciting female-identified voices. The pieces are a violent rejection of patriarchal culture and coalesce around anger, resistance, otherness, and shock. As Adrienne Rich, in her poem "Natural Resources," said, "I am tired of faintheartedness, / their having to be exceptional / to do what an ordinary woman / does in the course of things / I am tired of women stooping to half our height / to bring the essential vein to light . . ." So say we. It's our visceral response to the election of Donald Trump, to the Republican Party's repeated attempts to police women's bodies.