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Sandra Simonds

Sandra Simonds is the author of four collections of poetry: Ventura Highway in the Sunshine, The Sonnets, Mother  Was a Tragic Girl and Warsaw Bikini. She is a professor of English and humanities at Thomas University in Georgia.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

On Shakespeare and Aemilia Lanyer

Sandra Simonds

‘I gently propose that for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death we stop reading Shakespeare and shift our attention to the poems of Aemilia Lanyer’. Sandra Simonds on Shakespeare and Aemilia Lanyer.

Poetry | The Online Edition
Poetry | The Online Edition

Two Poems

Sandra Simonds

‘Police brutality makes me want to starve / myself to death and loneliness / is a drag’

Poetry | The Online Edition
Poetry | The Online Edition

From The Abstract Humanities

Sandra Simonds

‘let us / build the openwork fabric of our garden / on the fear in the body’

Poetry | Issue 131 padlock
Poetry | Issue 131 padlock

Model Reconstruction of Ancient Rome

Sandra Simonds

‘Here I am. Sephora, symbol of stolen work.’

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