About Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams is the author of Woman Reading to the Sea, which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Her poems are forthcoming in Orion, the Missouri Review, Measure, and the Best American Poetry 2009. She teaches at Centre College in Kentucky.

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On Not Using the Word “Cunt” in a Poem

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Certainly there’s pressure to perform
in such a way what doesn’t sound so stately
and isn’t safe: Let it be shorn,

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