Authors Talk: Meriwether Clarke

Meriwether ClarkeToday we are pleased to feature author Meriwether Clarke as our Authors Talk series contributor. Meriwether discusses the way that all three of her poems from Issue 18 focus on female shame. She reveals that she likes to think about her poems “as something that can potentially help a reader question the dominant narrative our society tells.”

Meriwether also discusses our current political climate, and she explains how she has been “looking for solace in books more than she has in quite some time.”  She then shares the words of both James Baldwin and Robert Hass to convey the responsibility of a writer. She notes how poetry asks questions and exposes us to discomfort, which is crucial at this time in history. Meriwether ends by saying that literature is “a means to ask the seemingly un-askable and learn the seemingly un-learnable.”

You can access Meriwether’s poetry in Issue 18 of Superstition Review.