{"id":39010,"date":"2025-03-29T17:59:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T00:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=39010"},"modified":"2025-05-10T15:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:38:26","slug":"issue-95-zoe-ryder-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/issue-95-zoe-ryder-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 95: Zo\u00eb Ryder White"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About Zo\u00eb Ryder White<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Zo\u00eb Ryder White\u2019s poems have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Iterant, Plume, and Threepenny Review, among others. Her first full-length collection, The<\/em> Visible Field,<\/em> is forthcoming from River River Books in early 2026. A chapbook, Via Post, <\/em>was a finalist for Tupelo Press\u2019 Snowbound Chapbook award and won the Sixth Finch chapbook contest in 2022. HYPERSPACE <\/em>was the editors\u2019 choice pick for the Verse Toma\u017e \u0160alamun Prize in 2020 and is available from Factory Hollow Press. She co-authored A Study in Spring<\/em> (Rabbit Catastrophe Press, 2015) and Elsewhere<\/em> (Sixth Finch Press, 2020)) with Nicole Callihan. A former elementary school teacher, she edits books for educators about the craft of teaching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social Media: <\/strong>
BlueSky: @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social
Instagram: @zoeryderwhite
Facebook: Zoe Ryder White
https:\/\/linktr.ee\/zoeryderwhite<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapbooks:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsewhere<\/em> (with Nicole Callihan)
and Via Post<\/em>
https:\/\/sixthfinch.com\/store.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HYPERSPACE<\/em> 
https:\/\/www.factoryhollowpress.com\/books\/hyperspace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Study in Spring<\/em> (with Nicole Callihan)
http:\/\/rabbitcatastrophepress.com\/a-study-in-spring<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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

Notes on Published Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

All three of the poems in this issue will appear in my first full length poetry collection, The Visible Field<\/em>, due out from River River Books in early 2026. Each arose from different seasons\/sets of circumstance a few years ago \u2013 though we were well into the pandemic when they were written  –  and while I can\u2019t remember the exact conditions that prompted each, reading them now, I can feel the weight of the deep loneliness\/sense of separation of those days. They all have that flavor, I think, whether I want them to or not. \u201cInterview\u201d is a response to Bhanu Kapil\u2019s \u201cTwelve Questions,\u201d which a fellow poet brought to a wonderful zoom writing group I was a part of during that time. \u201cLunar Retreat\u201d and \u201cSome Sentences, Some Clauses, a Word,\u201d were written during a month of collective poem-a-day posting, as well. It\u2019s interesting to read them with some distance, as a little collection. They all seem to be trying to figure out embodiment\/disembodiment. Distance\/togetherness. The murky edges of things \u2013 places, ideas \u2013 continue to draw my attention. Sometimes I think my poems are asking the same questions over and over again \u2013 or maybe it\u2019s all one poem, in many parts! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

I ran (and walked!) the Twin Cities marathon last year with my childhood best friend \u2013 we chatted and laughed our way from Minneapolis to St Paul \u2013 had so much fun I signed up to do it again this year. I find myself seasonally obsessed with certain things  (same t- shirt and jeans in heavy rotation for weeks at a time, same sandwich, same songs). Now it\u2019s a pair of thrift store jeans and yellow socks, the incomparable deliciousness of cilantro, and Gillian Welch. I\u2019m an editor in my day job, and because much of my creative work is also with words, sometimes I get tired of them, so I\u2019ve been learning how to throw pots. I\u2019m taking a handbuilding class now which is such a joy. I have an idea to make a bunch of wonky little mugs with monsters on them. Spiders. Leaves. Etc. Work plus 3 kids means not a ton of extra time, which means I\u2019ve had to get efficient in some ways, and comfortable with things taking time in others \u2013having my first full length contracted at age 50 seems somehow just right. Oh – tattoos! None. When I was writing my chapbook HYPERSPACE I was obsessed with filling my forearms with the going-into-hyperspace lines (think Star Wars). That obsession faded –  I think I change my mind too much for actual tattoos. <\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Listen to the author read her work! <\/a><\/h3>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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