“Jewel Box” praised on Poetry Shelf

Acclaimed New Zealand scholar-poets Anna Jackson and Paula Green discussed my poem “Jewel Box” in a new article on Poetry Shelf. “The poem I’ve been talking most about lately,” Jackson said, “is Erin Scudder’s Jewel Box. It is definitely the best poem about grit I can think of. It can be found in Sweet Mammalian Issue 8.” Green replies: “I love ‘Jewel Box’. It has got me thinking of poems in this way. Yes as jewel boxes, but also the grit that rubs against you. There’s the ‘peach meat’ and there’s the grit. Glorious.”