Hannah Louise Poston

Biography

Hannah Louise Poston is a poet and essayist. Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily and appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals, including Ploughshares and the Yale Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times.

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ESSAYS / Summer 2018

The News From the World of Beauty

By Hannah Louise Poston ,  Illustration by Anna Sudit

In late summer of 2017 I was at an artists’ colony in rural Virginia. A hot topic of conversation among the artists there was how we were reading the news, and how often. Some of the artists at the colony were reading the news obsessively...