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Archive for tag: MFA

14.022019September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Roberto C. Garcia

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Roberto C. Garcia

By Sarah ClarkIn Bettering American PoetryTags Alabama Shakes, anais nin, Audre Lorde, Belal Mobarak, bell hooks, Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kinglsey, Bettering American Poetry, Black Thought, canon, capitalism, gatekeeping, Get Fresh Books, Interview, Jasminne Mendez, Maria Fernanda, Marwa Helal, MFA, Michael Eric Dyson, Mohsin Hamid, PEN America, poetry, Roberto C Garcia, Ruth Irupe Sanabria, social media, Su Hwang, Tanea Lunsford

What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? Who would...

10.012019September 10, 2019

On Labor’s Value

On Labor’s Value

By Sarah ClarkIn FeaturedTags academic labor, capiitalism, creativity, honorarium, labor, maternal labor, MFA, parenting, Raina J. León, Readings, The Speakeasy Project, wage gape, workshop, writing

In the twilight stillness, I watch my son while he sleeps. My partner and I share the responsibilities of feeding him throughout the day. As...

07.122018September 10, 2019

Body of a Poem: Multiple Voices

Body of a Poem: Multiple Voices

By Sarah ClarkIn FeaturedTags autobiography, Body of a Poem, family, gatekeepers, gender, gender binary, gender presentation, identity, intersectionality, julia kinu, labels, Lily Hoang, MFA, nonbinary, poetry, queerness, race, TC Tolbert, tokenism

Writing about identity is a pressure for me as a person of color, a queer person, and a queer person of color. So often it...

03.082018November 12, 2019

Report from the Field: Quadrants

Report from the Field: Quadrants

By Marcelle HeathIn Reports from the FieldTags kate jayroe, MFA, portland state university, sexual assault

Late Summer, 2016 It’s been a long, cool Portland summer and goose bumps are, at this point, a familiar friend to my southern-born body....

11.072018July 2, 2020

Report from the Field: The Permission to Reveal

Report from the Field: The Permission to Reveal

By Sarah ClarkIn Reports from the FieldTags #metoo, AWP, Junot Diaz, memoir, MFA, Sherman Alexie, Whale Prom

This July 11 Report from the Field is a post by a Addie Tsai regarding their personal experiences concerning a noted literary figure. Confession 1:...

04.062018November 12, 2019

Report from the Field: Of Myopia, White Supremacy and the Personal Essay

Report from the Field: Of Myopia, White Supremacy and the Personal Essay

By Sarah ClarkIn Reports from the FieldTags #fiction, Alice Walker, Amitava Kumar, Audre Lorde, Carrie Frye, Cat Marnell, Diane Arbus, durga chew-bose, Edward Said, Elizabeth Mittman, Emily Gould, Gish Jen, Gloria Anzaldúa, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Jia Tolentino, Joan Didion, June Jordan, Laura Bennett, Mary Gaitskill, Mary McCarthy, Merve Emre, MFA, Michel de Montaigne, microaggression, Namrata Poddar, Philip Lopate, racism, Roxane Gay, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, Salman Rushdie, Sandra Cisneros, Sarah Hepola, Silvia Killingsworth, Simone Weil, Soraya Roberts, Susan Shapiro, Susan Sontag, Teju Cole, Vivian Gornick, whiteness, workshop, xenophobia, Zadie Smith

In 2017, I took my first creative nonfiction workshop with a reputed author, editor, and teacher of creative writing in the heart of Los Angeles,...

30.052018November 12, 2019

Report from the Field: The Fearful I: Confessional Modes of Address and Speaking the Self

Report from the Field: The Fearful I: Confessional Modes of Address and Speaking the Self

By Sarah ClarkIn Reports from the FieldTags Adrienne Rich, belonging, confessional, DIY, gender, gender performance, grand narrative, Luiza Flynn-Goodlet, lyric, MFA, queer, reclaimed slurs, sexism, Sharon Olds, sizeism, subjectivity, Sylvia Plath, universal narrative, voice, workshop

When I crested 12 and took the first tentative steps down authorship’s overgrown path, the trees and buzzing insects spoke with the voices of Sylvia...

07.052018September 10, 2019

Spam Stigma: An Open Letter to White People

Spam Stigma: An Open Letter to White People

By Sarah ClarkIn FeaturedTags colonialism, Craig Santos Perez, cultural appropriation, cultural appropriation of foods, David Chang, food, food journalism, food writing, implicit bias, Ina Cariño, Kristin Naca, Linda Civitello, MFA, Orientalism, poetry, racism, spam, Ugly Delicious

Dear bougie white people of America— I am a SPAM®-Eater—and I am not ashamed. Yes, you read that right. I eat Spam. You know, that...

11.022018September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Lisa Summe

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Lisa Summe

By Sarah ClarkIn Bettering American PoetryTags Alex Dimitriov, Alissa Nutting, Amorak Huey, Aziza Barnes, Bettering American Poetry, bisexuality, climate change, coming out, community, Denise Duhamel, Eileen Myles, Erica Dawson, family, gender, Genderbloc, Hanson, Lisa Summe, Lynn Melnick, Marisa Crawford, MFA, Morgan Parker, poetry, political poetry, pronouns, queerness, reproductive rights, Sara Watson, self-care, visibility, workshopping, writing programs

What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? Who would...

10.082017November 12, 2019

Report from the Field: A Catalog of Exchanges: When Men (Don’t) Read My Words

Report from the Field: A Catalog of Exchanges: When Men (Don’t) Read My Words

By Hannah BonnerIn Reports from the FieldTags claiming your voice, conversation, Karachi Literature Festival, MFA, misogyny, Phiroozeh Petigara, publishing, self-care, self-compassion, silencing, women writers, writing workshops

You are apparently famous, though I have never heard of you. You workshop my piece at a prestigious writing workshop in California. It is my...

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