Lannie Stabile
(she/her), a queer Detroiter, is the winner of OutWrite’s 2020 Chapbook Competition in Poetry; the winning chapbook,
Strange Furniture, is out with Neon Hemlock Press. She is also a back-to-back finalist for the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 Glass Chapbook Series and back-to-back semifinalist for the Button Poetry 2018 and 2019 Chapbook Contests. Lannie currently holds the position of Managing Editor at
Barren Magazine and is a member of the MMPR Collective. Find her on Twitter @LannieStabile.
INTRODUCTION
Poetry is always teaching me something. When I became an editor with
Barren Magazine, I quickly realized reading someone else’s art vastly improved my own. Submitters introduced me to forms I never knew existed and made me want to try my own hand at it. Like pantoums. I didn’t know what the hell a pantoum was until I read one in the slush pile.