Joannie Stangeland is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently The Scene You See. Her poems have also appeared in The MacGuffin, North Dakota Quarterly, New England Review,, and other journals. Her poem “VIII. ‘a conception of the ideal life’ is from an epistolary collaboration with the poet Sheila Farr. Text in quotes is from Isadora Duncan, and italicized text is from Gertrude Stein.
