Poet Kai-Lilly Karpman unleashes another salvo against a violent patriarchy in her revelatory and melancholy "On Want".
Tag: feminism
Kai-Lilly Karpman – Prometheus as Girl
In "Prometheus as Girl", award-winning poet Kai-Lilly Karpman takes the violence and misogyny of the patriarchy to task.
Ada Limón – Wife
Ada Limón's poem, Wife, examines the secret pitfalls of marriage from a woman's perspective; poignantly, from the point of view of a newlywed, of someone entering unchartered territory that has been laid out and defined for her by the generations that preceded her.