Beth Golay

Is this a common practice?

I did notice a device in your poetry, which, as you read the poem, for the most part served as a hard pause in the audio, except when it didn't.

And that was an asterisk between the stanzas.

Can you talk to me about this pause?

Oh, that would be great.

How should readers approach this collection?

You know, one poem a day, all in one sitting, in the order that the poems are presented?

I'm guilty.

I've only read Inferno.

I still need to read the other two.

Do you have a hope for what readers will take away from this collection?

Night Watch by Kevin Young was published by Knopf.

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Discontent by Beatrice Serrano was published by Vintage.

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I'm Beth Golay, and this is Marginalia.

I'm Beth Golay and this is Marginalia.

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