The Margins
Look Again.
The things that shape our lives are often the things we've learned not to notice.
The Margins is a home for poetry, thoughts, and conversations that invite us to look again: at invisible labor, unheard voices, inherited expectations, and the ordinary moments that quietly shape our lives. Here, poetry becomes a way of paying closer attention–to understand ourselves and one another more honestly.
As a poet, professor, woman, and writer, I believe good writing (and good reading) ask us to slow down long enough to see what has always been there. I invite you to read more closely. To question what seems ordinary. To notice what has been overlooked. And perhaps, in doing so, to find words for an experience you thought belonged only to you.
Welcome to The Margins.
Mission
The Margins exists to cultivate a practice of attention.
Through poetry and conversations, I invite readers to look again—to notice what has been overlooked, question what seems ordinary, and find language for experiences that often remain unnamed.
I believe that the most meaningful truths are rarely hidden; they're simply woven so deeply into everyday life that we've stopped seeing them.
What You'll Find Here
Poetry that gives language to the ordinary, the overlooked, and the quietly transformative.
Essays exploring literature, feminism, culture, and the unseen stories that impact women’s lives.
Looking Again—monthly reflections on ordinary moments, objects, and rituals that deserve a second look.
Behind the Scenes glimpses into the writing life and the making of new work.
Why "The Margins"?
The margins are where readers question, teachers respond, and writers discover
what belongs beside the story as much as within it. They are spaces of curiosity,
revision, and second thoughts—places where meaning expands instead of ends.
Women have often been expected to live in the margins: at the edges of power,
expectation, and language. Yet the margins have never been empty. They are full of
quiet courage, invisible labor, overlooked stories, and truths waiting to be recognized.
The Margins is where overlooked stories come into focus.