Welcome back to Editor’s Corner for our 9th installment, in which we hear from Kim Wyatt, founder of Cherry Bomb Books. Editor’s Corner is a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore complex issues regarding sex, gender, race and sexuality as they relate to their projects. Kim Wyatt founded Cherry Bomb in 2012 as an imprint of Bona Fide Books, and in this edition of Editor’s Corner, she discusses the “wrongs” she hopes to right with the help of Cherry Bomb and its authors as well as their collection Get Out of My Crotch!. For more information on Editor’s Corner [Read more...]
Editor’s Corner #8: Kristina Marie Darling for Noctuary Press
May 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to our 8th edition of Editor’s Corner, a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore complex issues regarding sex, gender, race and sexuality as they relate to their projects. In this installment, Kristina Marie Darling of Noctuary Press talks to us about genre, the problem with classification, visibility and women’s writing. Darling is a poet, essayist and critic. Learn more about her and her projects here. For more information on Editor’s Corner contact me at mwilson@vidaweb.org. On her project, role and publishing philosophy: Noctuary Press is a small independent press that focuses on female writers working with cross-genre [Read more...]
Editor’s Corner #7: Judy Berman & Niina Pollari for It’s Complicated
May 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to the 7th installment of Editor’s Corner, a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore complex issues regarding sex, gender, race and sexuality as they relate to their projects. This week we hear from Judy Berman and Niina Pollari, editors of It’s Complicated. Berman and Pollari discuss the sometimes abstruse realities of feminism, particularly the complex relationships feminist writers might have with misogynistic work and its artists. For more information on Editor’s Corner contact me at mwilson@vidaweb.org. On their project, role and publishing philosophies: It’s Complicated is a zine and future book project about feminist writers’ relationships to [Read more...]
Editor’s Corner #6: Kate Partridge for So to Speak
April 17, 2013 By 2 Comments
Welcome to installment number 6 of Editor’s Corner. This week Kate Partridge talks to us about running a multi-genre, feminist literary journal. Partridge is Editor-in-Chief of So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art, and she is also a published poet, finishing her MFA at George Mason. You can read Partridge’s work in Issue 8 of Weave Magazine and in Issue 20 of damselfly press: a Gathering of Women’s Voices as well as in several other journals. For more information on Editor’s Corner contact me at mwilson@vidaweb.org. On her review, role and publishing philosophies: So to Speak: a feminist journal of [Read more...]
Editor’s Corner #5: Lori Desrosiers for Naugatuck River Review
April 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to this week’s installment of Editor’s Corner. This week we feature Lori Desrosiers, editor of Naugatuck River Review. Desrosiers is a poet whose first full-length collection of poems is now available from Salmon Poetry. You can also read Desrosiers’ work at Contemporary American Voices, where she was May 2012’s featured poet. Other poems can be found here and here. Also, be sure to check out NRR’s fifth annual narrative poetry contest. Susan Deer Cloud will judge. For more information on Editor’s Corner contact me at mwilson@vidaweb.org. On her review, role and publishing philosophies: Naugatuck River Review has published many styles [Read more...]
Editor’s Corner #3: Janet Holmes for Ahsahta Press
March 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
In the third installment of Editor’s Corner, Janet Holmes from Ahsahta Press joins us. Holmes has been with Ahsahta for well over a decade, and here, she provides us with a detailed look at her aesthetic interests. Holmes is the author of several poetry collections, the most recent, The MS of My Kin (2009) from Shearsman, in which Holmes uses the art of erasure to reveal new and unexpected poems from the Franklin Reading Edition of Dickinson. Read more about the project here . You can also find Holmes’s work at Beloit Poetry Journal and at Poets for Living Waters. Holmes [Read more...]
Editor’s Corner #2: Lisa Marie Basile for Patasola Press
February 27, 2013 By 1 Comment
Welcome to Editor’s Corner, a new VIDAWeb feature, in which editors of diverse publications and literary projects weigh in regarding issues of gender, sexuality and racial disparity in our current publishing climate. Participating editors have been sent a series of questions to which they respond; however, editors are also welcome to comment freely on other related matters. For more information on Editor’s Corner contact me at mwilson@vidaweb.org. This week, in our second installment, we feature Lisa Marie Basile, founding editor of Patasola Press. Basile is a published poet and is deeply involved in the New York City poetry community. You [Read more...]
Editor’s Corner #1: Jennifer Schomburg Kanke for The Southeast Review
February 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to Editor’s Corner, a new VIDAWeb feature, in which editors of diverse publications and literary projects weigh in regarding issues of gender, sexuality and racial disparity in our current publishing climate. Participating editors have been sent a series of questions to which they respond; however, editors are also welcome to comment freely on other related matters. For more information on Editor’s Corner contact me at mwilson@vidaweb.org. This week, we feature Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, poetry editor for The Southeast Review. Schomburg Kanke is also a poet and a doctoral candidate at Florida State University. Her poems dig deep into domestic [Read more...]
Women of Being: An Anti-List of Under-Acknowledged Authors
February 27, 2012 By 6 Comments
In a culture saturated with top-ten lists of everything from books to bikes to baby names — what can we do to right the gender imbalance in publishing besides tabulate our absences? VIDA decided to start by excavating the spaces behind the lists. We asked our board members and a few other contemporary authors to share sentences about a literary woman we feel is too little mentioned. Our short anti-list is hardly comprehensive, yet seen as a whole the variety and breadth is exciting, and inclusive of poets, memoirists, literary journalists, playwrights, experimental and lyric fiction writers, children’s book authors, [Read more...]
