Isabel Neal – Michigan Quarterly Review

Isabel Neal

Isabel Neal is a writer from Boston and an MFA candidate in poetry at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She also teaches creative writing and serves as a steward for GEO, UMichigan’s graduate labor union. She has received fellowships and grants from Civitas, the Vermont Studio Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Mellon Foundation, UMichigan’s International Institute, and the Yiddish Book Center.

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THE EARTH IS FOREVER GOOEY: a conversation with Jenny Zhang

We seek out poetry because we seek in this completely subjective form some kernel of beauty and truth. And so for me, friendship is poetic, and it is lyric, because it does that, and it is mysterious why when a friend mirrors to you what they think you are – it works.

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We seek out poetry because we seek in this completely subjective form some kernel of beauty and truth. And so for me, friendship is poetic, and it is lyric, because it does that, and it is mysterious why when a friend mirrors to you what they think you are – it works.

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