Tag: Ashley Farmer

In Dear Damage, Tragedy Foregrounds the Strength of Ashley Farmer’s Family

By Geoff Wichert on May 9, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

“I’m not the artist my family members are, but I write.” What Ashley Marie Farmer almost certainly means is that she never felt the sense of vocation that led her grandmother, mom, and sister to paint, her brother to shape pottery, and her grandfather to build a house […]

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Ashley Farmer on Victoria Chang and Belonging

By Poets in Pajamas on April 1, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Writers are sometimes drawn to other writers for what they have in common, like subject or theme. But they also can be drawn by the differences, in say craft or style. Something of both draws Ashley Farmer to Victoria Chang. “Victoria Chang is such a masterful, original poet […]