Wild Juice Mary Beth Owens as a journalist and a

as a journalist and a writer

seeking tenure and promotions

working communities

while others die trying

Classified under the rubric 'computer-related syndrome'

Wild Juice Mary Beth Owens as a journalist and aIn Wild Juice, the poet and novelist Ashley Mace Havird confronts global and personal change. Her subjects range from the extinction of a prehuman species to the present day reduction in sea life due to the climate crisis. Closer to home, she confronts the death of her father and her own aging. Running throughout these lyrics of loss is the richness of communal life, a current of hope given substance by the juice of wild grapes that baptizes the