Julie Poole
Julie Poole is an Austin-based writer. She received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the New Writers Project at UT Austin. Her debut book of poems, Bright Specimen, was published in 2021. Her second book of poems Gorgeous Freak (Deep Vellum) is forthcoming in 2023. Her articles and essays have appeared in Texas Monthly, the Texas Observer, Scalawag, and Bon Appétit.
Book review: ‘Grandmothers on Guard’ by Jennifer L. Johnson
The photo was meant to lure media attention, attract new recruits, and, in a sense, refashion the image of the Minutemen as ignorant gun-happy beer-belly types by introducing a...
Book review: ‘Why Solange Matters’ by Stephanie Phillips
London-based music journalist, Stephanie Phillips wrote “Why Solange Matters,” while she was on tour with her feminist punk band, Big Joanie. She wrote with a laptop balanced on her...
Thirteen ways of looking at the phrase ‘homeless camping’
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I’m not a professional photographer, artist, journalist, or reporter, I’m a poet interested in language — how it bends, morphs, twists over time, how it shapes our perspective of...
Review: Cristina Rivera Garza’s “Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country”
In an unflinching look at violence in contemporary Mexico, writer Cristina Rivera Garza aims to unlock the silence surrounding grief.
The introductory paragraph of Cristina Rivera Garza’s latest book “Grieving:...
Book Review: ‘Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of The Death Penalty’
Maurice Chammah’s debut book “Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of The Death Penalty,” (Crown, 2021) opens with a lesser-known historical fact: In 1972, the U.S....