staff picks

Sep 7

Written By Holly Mason

Back to school—the So to Speak editorial staff has put together a list of reading recommendations for you!

Editor Douglas Luman recommends:

remember to wave

Kaia Sand

this connection of everyone with lungs

Juliana Spahr

Assistant Editor Melanie Tague recommends:

A New Language for Falling Out of Love

Megan Privitello

Lullaby with Exit Sign

Hadara Bar-Nadav

Art Editor Sarah Irvin recommends:

The Mother Knot

Jane Lazarrae

Hold Still

Sally Mann

Blog Editor Holly Mason recommends:

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

River House

Sally Keith

Fiction Editor Justin Lafreniere recommends:

A Night at the Fiesta

Kristin Valdez Quade

Gold Fame Citrus

Clarie Vaye Watkins

Assistant Fiction Editor Bianca Spinosa recommends:

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

Good Morning, Midnight

Jean Rhys

Nonfiction Editor Christa Spillson recommends:

The Body: an Essay

Jenny Boully

Wise and Foolish Builders

Alexandra Teague

Assistant Nonfiction Editor Meg Sipos recommends:

On Immunity

Eula Biss

Bastard out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

Poetry Editor Danielle Badra recommends:

Seam

Tarfia Faizullah

Gardening in the Dark

Laura Kasischke

Assistant Poetry Editor Ben Brezner recommends:

duende

Tracy K. Smith

Bluets

Maggie Nelson

Holly Mason

Holly Mason Badra is a queer, Kurdish American writer living in Northern Virginia. She is the curatorial editor of Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora (The University of Arkansas Press). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Mizna, The Markaz Review, Everything is Political, Poet Lore, Manoa, Rowayat, Meridian, Asymptote, The Arkansas International, The Northern Virginia Review, The Adroit Journal, The Rumpus, SWWIM Everyday, Circumference Magazine, CALYX, and elsewhere. She is the associate director of Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University. She reads for Poetry Daily and serves as the board vice-president of Henar Press.