Danielle Chapman — Trespassing with Tweens

<p>Wonder and strangeness commingle with the commonplace and universal in Danielle Chapman’s “Trespassing with Tweens.” In a not-quite mirroring, a human mother and her children stand and watch together in awe as a great blue heron flaps in and feeds its two offspring. The pleasures found here are profound and multiple – the joys in seeing, in sharing an experience of seeing, in seeing with fresh eyes, and in being seen.</p><p>Danielle Chapman is a poet, essayist, and lecturer in English at Yale University. Her most recent collection of poetry, <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/danielle-chapman-trespassing-with-tweens/#media" target="_blank"><i>Boxed Juice</i></a>, was published in 2024 by Unbounded Edition Press. Her previous collection of poems, <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/danielle-chapman-trespassing-with-tweens/#media" target="_blank"><i>Delinquent Palaces</i></a>, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2015, and her memoir, <a href="https://onbeing.org/pro...