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Seattle poet Erin Malone’s experience of new motherhood did not exactly square with the Hallmark card version. In today’s poem, “Suspect” she considers how one woman feels about her body in the light of new motherhood, leading KUOW’s literary producer Elizabeth Austen to consider some assumptions about motherhood.
Malone is the author of a chapbook, WHAT SOUND DOES IT MAKE (Concrete Wolf, 2008), and has taught writing at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, at Richard Hugo House in Seattle, and at the University of Washington Rome Center in Italy. She lives in Seattle with her husband and son.
Her reading was recorded March 9, 2009 in the KUOW studios.
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Seattle poet Erin Malone’s experience of new motherhood did not exactly square with the Hallmark card version. In today’s poem, “Suspect” she considers how one woman feels about her body in the light of new motherhood, leading KUOW’s literary producer Elizabeth Austen to consider some assumptions about motherhood.
Malone is the author of a chapbook, WHAT SOUND DOES IT MAKE (Concrete Wolf, 2008), and has taught writing at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, at Richard Hugo House in Seattle, and at the University of Washington Rome Center in Italy. She lives in Seattle with her husband and son.
Her reading was recorded March 9, 2009 in the KUOW studios.
