L.J. Sysko’s essay “Inside Lane” appears in The Georgia Review’s 2023 Summer issue. Sysko’s non-fiction piece about sexual harassment in a ’90s boarding school was selected by the journal’s editors and judge Jennine Capò Crucet as a finalist in the The Georgia Review’s inaugural Prose Prize. Read the complete essay here
“Sysko’s witty debut skewers the patriarchy in poems that explore and upend the various societal roles women are expected to play … This whip-smart collection is a playful celebration of feminine power.” Read the complete review
Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead interviews poet L.J. Sysko about her new book, The Daughter of Man, “her slow journey on Submittable,” and using humor in poetry. Listen to the complete interview
“‘The daughter’ bounces from underworld to Olympus, from grocery to garage. She’s a subsistence feminist, farming her own narrow suburban parcel, pressing bloody hands together in prayerful thanks for the roughest rock in her plot so that she can sit a while. She’s lucky and unlucky; she’s aging yet forever stuck back where the damage …
