Ladies of Night: Muses and Poets
Posted at 1:35 PM May 30, 2008
North Carolina based writer, poet and former stripper Jenni Russell has edited the summer issue of creative writing journal MiPOesias around a theme: The Oldest Profession. The 44-page magazine can be downloaded as a PDF or purchased as a hard copy through Amazon.
In her introduction to the issue, Jenni writes:
Opinions are like bellybuttons, almost everybody has one, and for this issue I chose pieces that went deeper than opinion-writing the questioned the meaning of the phrase "sex work" itself. And in the end, that general category "Sex work" is exploded and challenged by the writers' refusal to reduce human life to theories or catchphrases, and instead to capture the the universal experiences shared by all of us: love, growing up, honesty, rejection, curiosity, vulnerability, compassion, doubt, desire, loneliness, and beauty.
Jenni also has a poetry chapbook of her own on the way - she's taking advance orders for Strip, which will be shipping in August.
--Audacia Ray
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