![]() ![]() She is the recipient of many awards and honors including the Wilder Prize from Two Sylvias Press, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award, among others. How might we make the voices we generate more audible to readers? Why should we? And what does any of this have to do with the end of the world? * From Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnetsĪdrian Blevins is the author of the forthcoming Status Pending (Four Way Books, 2023), Appalachians Run Amok, Live from the Homesick Jamboree, The Brass Girl Brouhaha, and a co-edited collection of essays by new and emerging Appalachian writers. We’ll then move into our own generative experiments to try to trouble our own voice(s) with new sounds (and silences). In this workshop, we’ll work together to interrogate what we mean when we talk about a poet’s “voice.” We’ll look at poems by poets working from a wide range of aesthetic sensibilities, aims, and ambitions in order to ask who or what speaks in or through a poem. “When the lamb humped her leg Lil said it was getting on / her last nerve”*: Writing Voice-y Now "As someone that is 26 weeks pregnant and an Idahoan - these legislators love to brag about local control - nothing is more local than having control over my own body.Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction Morning IntensivesĪdrian Blevins | Morning Poetry Intensive "Extremists know they cannot eradicate abortion - they only seek to ban access to safe abortion care, putting the lives of pregnant people at risk," she said. Legal Voice Idaho programs manager Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln said in a press release that "knowing that the clock is winding down on access to safe abortion care in Idaho is absolutely sickening." Legal Voice is a Seattle-based nonprofit that advocates for women's rights in the Northwest. He said this is unconstitutional," Dillon said. "Idaho’s own attorney general voiced opposition to the law. "We would anticipate that number would increase as this access is decimated," he said.Įven though the ban is about to go into effect, Dillon said legal challenges are certain. He said 43% of all visits to the Spokane Valley clinic in 2021 were patients from Idaho. He said Planned Parenthood has seen an increase in patients traveling from Idaho to clinics in Washington for abortions in the past year. It has been bleak for years, but today it just got bleaker." "Right now, the current state of access to abortion is bleak. "Politicians should not be intervening between a patient and a provider. Paul Dillon, vice president of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho, said the law is "a blatant violation of Idahoans' constitutional right to abortion" and described it as "a disturbing violation of privacy." "I supported our bill, as I support every effort to protect the lives of our children." "The real life impact of the Texas bill has been a dramatic decrease in the number of abortions," she said. Mary Souza, R-Coeur d'Alene, said Idaho's bill is similar to the Texas heartbeat bill passed last year. "Medical professionals the world over cannot declare with scientific certainty the day a preborn child becomes a 'life.' That is why we have a moral duty to exercise extreme caution when we consider these actions." "We value life, but we debate when life begins," Riggs said. He said while the Supreme Court has made abortion legal, he believes the decision was "shortsighted and incorrect." "The Fetal Heartbeat bill is an important new piece of protection in that battle." "I'm proud to be a part of that," Riggs said. ![]() ![]() Peter Riggs, R-Post Falls, said Idaho stands at the forefront of the effort to protect life. He said Open Arms remains committed to serving the preborn, the mothers and the families of North Idaho, "and revealing God’s design for human life, sexual integrity and reproductive health." "We thank God for this victory and stand in unity with all Idahoans who desire to protect and defend the preborn who cannot stand for themselves," Open Arms Executive Director Richard Hawk told The Press. Open Arms Pregnancy Care Center and Real Choices Clinic in Coeur d'Alene is among those celebrating. Reactions to this law, which goes into effect in 30 days, were mixed. Brad Little signed the Fetal Heartbeat, Preborn Child Protection Act bill into law Wednesday. ![]()
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