Abriana Jette

Abriana Jetté is the editor of the #1 best selling anthology in women's poetry, "50 Whispers: Poems by Extraordinary Women", and writes a quarterly column on emerging poets for Stay Thirsty Magazine. Her work has appeared in The Moth, River Teeth, The Iron Horse Literary Review, Poetry Quarterly and may other places. Jette teaches for St. John's University and the City University of New York.

Diamond: from the Greek αδάμας (adamas) “proper,” “unalterable,” “unbreakable” The Japanese have two words for truth, honne and tatemae. Tataemae describes the truth revealed by...