On Not Using the Word “Cunt” in a Poem

By Lisa Williams

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Issue: Winter 2006 / Volume 82/1
Published: December 13, 2005
Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams is the author of Woman Reading to the Sea, which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Her poems are forthcoming in Orion, the Missouri Review, Measure, and the Best American Poetry 2009. She teaches at Centre College in Kentucky.

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