Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.