Have you ever heard of something called a glosa poem? If you haven't, you're like me when I picked up Amber Dawn's debut poetry collection Where the Words End and My Body Begins, which is comprised of these things called glosa poems. I admit, I was intrigued and surprised: I mean, you don't read a lot of contemporary poets who are using strict forms, let alone archaic forms that even a former English major like me hasn't heard of! This book of poems is a welcome change from the sea of free verse that you usually find written by today's poets. 
 If you're at all familiar with 20th century queer, lesbian, feminist, and survivorship poetry (especially from Canada), you'll recognize a lot of the poets Amber Dawn has chosen for her glosas: Trish Salah, Gertrude Stein, Rachel Rose, Lucille Clifton, Adrienne Rich, Leah Horlick, Sina Queyras, Jillian Christmas, Lydia Kwa, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarashinha, and more! I love the idea that Where the Words End and My Body Begins is an ode to being a reader and writer, and a conversation between women poets. Despite the fact that writing can be about as isolating as work can get, these glosa poems create a kind of community on the page... 
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