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Rebecca Hazelton is the author of Fair Copy (Ohio State University Press, 2012), winner of the 2011 Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award in Poetry, and Vow, from Cleveland State University Press. She was the 2010-11 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Creative Writing Institute and winner of the “Discovery” / Boston Review 2012 Poetry Contest. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, The Southern Review, Boston Review, and Best New Poets 2011.


I vacillate between periods of healthy activities (yoga, body weight exercises, running) and periods of high sloth (couch sitting! desk sitting! sitting in general!). My inertia in either is strong, but eventually something will push me into one or the other. Recently, it was realizing that I am a great example of “skinny fat” (yes, problematic terminology all around) — I look thin, sure, but I...

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Average rating: 4.22 · 40 ratings · 6 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
Fair Copy
4.89 of 5 stars 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012
Vow
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013
Tender Trapper
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012

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“It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my world was run, and that there was a need for feminism. I'd thought it was all solved. There are people like my mom, clearly everyone is equal and it's all fine. Then I get into the world and I hear the things people are saying. Then I get to Hollywood and hear the very casual, almost insidious misogyny that just runs through so much of the fiction. It was just staggering to me.”
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