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the light can be something you love all on your own by Stephanie E. Glass

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“Through shameless truth-telling, and incisive poems whose edges cut through years of silence, Stephanie Glass has crafted a collection that can help any of us heal from past traumas. Her poems radiate with a fierce self-compassion, and a love for the world, urging each of us: ‘darling, go make yourself a feast.’ You will want to savor every word in this book, steeped in the beauty of the Great Plains where Glass makes her home, and in the unconditional love for her son that has finally led her to believe, ‘i am / the only self / i could ever be.’ Glass shows us, again and again, with such urgency, what it means to grow beyond a family of origin, to ‘run from a name’ that no longer fits, and to understand at long last: ‘the light can be something you love/all on your own.’”

—James Crews, author of Turning Toward Grief and Breathing Room

“The poems in the light can be something you love all on your own drift through geographical, corporeal, and domestic landscapes. They present us with the grit and music of motherhood, daughterhood, (fractured) partnership, and what happens when we are left to pick up the pieces after our safety net is broken. Here, Skittles and strawberry cheesecake can be tinged with violence, but even then, something sweet is salvaged. Glass’s intimate poems cut straight to the bone. This is a marvelous debut.”

–Theodora Ziolkowski author of On the Rocks, Mother Tongues and Ghostlit

“It takes courage to write about the hard to grasp, the inexplicable, the occult, the spirit world– not to mention God. And to do so with honesty, while describing such loss and love and still having the fearlessness to move on is a rare thing. Stephanie Glass achieves all of this in her poem ‘shuffling the deck.’ Breathtaking!”

–Tim Carbone, Railroad Earth

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the light can be something you love all on your own

by Stephanie E. Glass

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In the light can be something you love all on your own, Stephanie Glass writes from the raw center of lived experience. Her poems carry readers through rural Nebraska landscapes, where spiritual hauntings echo within each memory. Light serves as both metaphor and guide, illuminating a pathway from a life of mere survival to one radiant with joy textured by grief. Each poem is at once elegy and invocation, rooting the reader in liminal spaces that thrum with longing even as they blaze with technicolor optimism. With language that extends a hand—offering both consolation and strength—Glass confronts what is broken while persistently reaching for what might still be made whole. This collection pulses with intimacy, defiance, and the power of giving voice to the unspoken conversations we carry within.

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Stephanie Glass lives in rural Nebraska with her son, Milo. Together with a constellation of loved ones—including a lively clowder of cats—they celebrate the joy that infuses the rhythm of their daily lives. Glass frequently disappears into the Nebraska Plains and Badlands for hiking and backpacking trips. In addition to nature, she draws inspiration for her poetry from literature, motherhood, queer identity, political activism, nature, post-traumatic growth following domestic violence, and the healing relationships she has built with those she loves. Her work has appeared in Rattle Poetry Magazine, The Quarter(ly) Vol. XIII: This Is Where We Are Now, Writers in the Attic’s Anthology, and the Moonstone Center for the Arts anthology: Go Back to Where You Came From.