AS IF BY MAGIC: "SLIPPERY SLOPE"

During a routine Google search a few days ago, I found a poem of mine as part of a list of readings in a domestic violence prevention initiative:
https://mainehumanities.org/domestic-...

"Slippery Slope," from Spared (A Main Street Rag Editors' Choice Chapbook), was in excellent company:
Session Three: On the Edge
“The Glorious Indifference of Wilderness” – Terry Tempest Williams, essay
“The Baby Bird” – Cheryl Strayed, essay
“The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion” – Roxane Gay, essay
“Slippery Slope” – Angele Ellis, poem
“Violent Eruptions” – Maria Lusia Arroyo, poem

"Slippery Slope" also was reprinted in a wonderful anthology, Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press), edited by Laura Madeline Wiseman.

This is one of the unexpected thrills of publishing: to find your work cited among great writers whom you know through their work, although not personally!

A compelling video of "Slippery Slope" a collaboration between my graphic designer brother, Christopher Ellis, and myself, is on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xciwE...

Whether or not poetry makes anything happen (I fervently believe it does) this feminist writer is proud to represent. Thankyouuniverse.

Spared: Poems