What, Why, How: Janeen Pergrin Rastall

What:

I live on the shoreline of Lake Superior. My first chapbook, In the Yellowed House was about an imaginary family living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In particular, it was about young women living in a rural, male dominated culture. My second chapbook, Objects May Appear Closer, was a tribute to my parents, to our childhood in the fifties. Heart Radicals is a collaborative book of modern love poetry. In my most recent work, I have returned to the voices of the women of the U.P. So...