She Is Me, and She Is a Woman

This is the portrait of a woman with thoughts on many subjects, from feminism to politics to just being a woman. She speaks of her mind, her body, her world, giving something every woman can relate to in joyous, condensed lyric poetry. Sophia Marshall is a perceptual poet, characterized by her treatment of the senses. She has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic, as well as a poet, with credits in several jazz journals and other music publications, and she has published letters on politics in The Boston Phoenix. She has a blog, The Flash Boston (theflashboston.com), covering Boston music and culture. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.