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Niina Pollari

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As seen in: MSN, Substack, Vox, Pitchfork, Refinery29, Romper, The Millions, The Creative Independent, The Offing, Cleveland Review of Books
author of path of totality (soft skull 2022) and dead horse (birds, llc 2015). kind of a harsh finnish.
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A Woman Inflates to the Sound of Applause: On Mackenzie Kozak's "no swaddle"

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By Niina Pollari
| Cleveland Review of Books Verified
Mackenzie Kozak | no swaddle | University of Iowa Press | April 2025 | 80 pages Motherhood in all its iterations is a classic topic for contemporary literature, and with reason. Alongside death, it’s the aspect of the human experience that best straddles the worlds of the potential and the physical; there is much to write about. But what about the invisible state of pre-motherhood, that transitional line between person and parent, which, once crossed, there is no uncrossing?
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sadreads #18: the american disaster

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By Niina Pollari
| Substack
A long time ago, when I was still considering pursuing a path toward teaching as a profession (this consideration was mercifully brief — nothing against teachers but I don’t think I would be a good one), I thought about putting together a syllabus called “Literature and the American Disaster.” This syllabus was going to depend fully on the work’s context, place, and time, all of which I love to talk about. But it also contained the idea of a particularly American response to a cataclysmic event.
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Kate Zambreno’s 'The Light Room' Makes Art Of The Small Life

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By Niina Pollari
| MSN Verified
The hardest-working object in my life right now is my C-shaped nursing pillow. It’s been handed down through several babies — I got it from my sister, then I used it for my daughter, and then it was briefly relegated to play room object, but now it’s back to doing the work it was meant to do. My son was born in March, and as I find myself again mired in the tedious meditation on the present that is early motherhood, the pillow is there with me, an ugly and dependable helper.
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