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Mischa Willett

Mischa Willett is the author of Phases (Cascade Books) and editor of Philip James Bailey’s Festus, forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press. His poems, essays, and translations appear in journals such as First Things, Comment, Rio Grande Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Victorian Literature and Culture, and elsewhere. He teaches English at Seattle Pacific University.

Articles by Mischa Willett

Some Reservations: Thinking about Native American Spirituality

I remember being held. I remember, though it was the desert, being cold. I remember the feathers of a headdress, coming up like the sun from behind red boulder. My…