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.

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

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

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

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