{"id":3829,"date":"2022-10-07T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T23:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:55:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:55:44","slug":"issue-90-elizabeth-tannen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/issue-90-elizabeth-tannen\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 90: Elizabeth Tannen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About Elizabeth Tannen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Tannen is a writer, educator and fundraiser in Minneapolis. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of New Mexico and has published poems and essays in places like Copper Nickel, PANK, Salon<\/a>, The Rumpus<\/a>, Passages North<\/a> and elsewhere. You can find more of her work at her website<\/a>. She tweets on occasion at @TannenElizabeth.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A Profile of the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Notes on “Riddle, six weeks” and “Liz Phair, fifteen weeks”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I wound up writing a book\u2019s worth of poems when I was pregnant, which I didn\u2019t anticipate. I always knew I wanted to have a child, but I wasn\u2019t attached to having one biologically (it just happened to be the easiest path for me, in the end) so I didn\u2019t know anything about pregnancy and found myself completely astounded by its utter weirdness. I think there\u2019s a fascinating tension between the common-ness of pregnancy (as well as birth and child-rearing) and also how completely wild and strange and miraculous they all are. I just couldn\u2019t (can\u2019t) get over it. Also, I\u2019ve written very few poems since my son was born, and it\u2019s not an issue of time because I have worked on essays. Maybe there\u2019s something more lyric or poetic about a potential life than an actual one? (There is a line in Lydia Millet\u2019s novel \u201cThe Children\u2019s Bible\u201d that gets at this but for the life of me I can\u2019t find it, please help if you can!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music, Food, Booze, Tattoos, Kittens, etc.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n