I'm honored to share that my essay, "My Father and W.B. Yeats," which appeared in The Hopkins Review last year, made it into the Notables list of this year's Best American Essays. This is my third BAE Notable citation, and it's for an essay I'm particularly proud of, about the power of poetry (particularly my father's poetry, and the poetry of William Butler Yeats) to connect us to the otherworldly and magical. It's also the most challenging essay I've written so far (I spent an entire month working on it full-time, wrestling meaning out of my sentences) and it received around maybe 12 rejections (give or take) before it found a home with The Hopkins Review. THR has generously made the essay available for free reading and downloading from Project Muse until November 15, 2023. I am so grateful for their support.
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