Jane Satterfield, Professor of Writing, publishes new poetry collection, The Badass Bront毛s
Jane Satterfield's new poetry collection, The Badass Bront毛s, a Diode Editions Book Prize winner, was published in March 2023 and listed among Orion Magazine鈥檚 11 Poetry collections for National Poetry month. New poems appear in The More-Than-Human issue of About Place, a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute.
In poems of biography and reinvention, The Badass Bront毛s explores the lives and afterlives Bront毛 sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne whose feminist vision and sensitivity to the more-than-human world serves as inspiration for generations of readers and writers. Ranging from life narrative to lyric elegies to witty inquiries into the sisters鈥� status as popular culture avatars, the book illuminates the creative achievements of three extraordinary women whose influence continues to be felt.