elizabeth salper

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Gender Female
Location Tucson, Arizona, United States
Interests I write poetry, photograph, read, hike in the Sonoran desert, peruse junkyards, metal yards, play with wheelbarrows, enjoy public libraries, sit on the porch at dusk, travel, bicycle, laugh, watch Harris Hawks soar on thermals, love-up my dog, and raise my amazing 15 year old son.
Favorite Music Neil Young, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Joni Mitchell, The Civil Wars, Junip, Gillian Welch, Feist, Calexico, Howe Gelb, Rainer, Silver Thread Trio, Sufjan Stevens, Run Boy Run, Leila Lopez, Yo lo Tengo, Mark Knopfler, Sylvan Esso, and the list goes on...
Favorite Books Any book by Mary Oliver, A Note Slipped Under the Door : Teaching from Poems We Love, by Nick Flynn & Shirley McPhillips, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn, Staying Alive Real Poems for Unreal Times, almost any Kim Addonizio poem, Dorianne Laux poems, Fanny Howe poems, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, Animal Vegetable Miracle, Just Kids by Patti Smith, The Great Gatsby, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman, Plainsong by Kent Haruf, Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings. Missives From the Other Side of Silence by Kim Dana Kupperman, Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell, Autobiography of A Face by Lucy Grealy, Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett, Wild by Cheryl Strayed, The Late Interiors - a Life Under Construction by Marjorie Sandor, Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, When Women Were Birds, Fifty-Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams, We the Animals by Justin Torres, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Elsewhere by Richard Russo, Bluets by Maggie Nelson, Rebecca Solnit, Fire to Fire by Mark Doty, Noelle Kocot, All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews, and the list goes on...