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Elissa Ball is a poet, humorist, and nonfiction writer, originally from Yakima, WA. She has contributed to The Inlander , Seattle Weekly , The Spokesman
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Elissa Ball is a poet, humorist, and nonfiction writer, originally from Yakima, WA. She has contributed to
The Inlander,
The Spokesman-Review, and The Yakima Herald-Republic. Her first poetry collection,
The Punks Are Writing Love Songs, was published in 2012. Before COVID hit, Elissa was writing and performing comedy with
Lilac City Live, and she hosted a monthly variety show at Lucky You Lounge called
Rad Jokes.
About the Poems: For this week s Poetry Moment, I selected poems about passion an abundance of passion. The poems (all written by women) that I chose explore desire, power, and the invisible electric forces that draw us toward certain directions. Whether expressing the competitive desire to win at tetherball (Kim-An Lieberman s In Tetherball Time ) or the desire to openly, safely love another person (Elizabeth Bradfield s Now You See Me ), these poets voices exude an urgent, potent lust for life. Speaking of lust, Kim Addonizio s For Desir