Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way

Linda Russo (inhabitorypoetics.blogspot.com) is the author of three books of poetry, including The Enhanced Immediacy of the Everyday (Chax Press, 2015) and Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way (Shearsman Books, 2015); a collection of lyric essays, To Think of her Writing Awash in Light, selected by John D'Agata as the winner of Subito Press inaugural creative nonfiction prize, is forthcoming (2015). Scholarly essays have appeared in Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry (University of Iowa Press) and other edited collections, and as the preface of Joanne Kyger's About Now: Collected Poems (National Poetry Foundation). She lives in the Columbia River Watershed (eastern Washington State, U.S. America) and she teaches at Washington State University.