off the margins pushes the boundaries of language, conventional form, blended genre, and prose flash, featuring women writers who fearlessly tell the truth and risk vulnerability to give voice to their experience. Together we are writing our collective history, considering what we know, and asking how we can craft our yet unwritten lives. We encourage dialogue between our writers and readers.
Therese Gleason Carr
I have been exploring my ancestral lineage on my mother’s side and have felt compelled to give voice to the women who gave me life and whose sacrifices and survival have led to my being right here, right now, humbled and privileged. I am trying to create an opening, a channel, through which their voices,…
Reverie Koniecki
A voice can be singular, yet also belong to all the bodies and experiences it connotes. Language is where we construct the common dream of the human experience, yet fails at ultimately allowing one to fully experience the body of another. My artistic aim is to explore these seemingly contradictory aspects of the physical and…
Becky Dennison Sakellariou
When I dive into the writing of a poem, I am entering an altered state, inhabiting a world of remembering, reimagining and reconstructing that can transcend the world that already exists. In order for that to happen, I reach for the emotional components, the human pieces, the movement in the place or the event. …
