I am an unsympathetic character. And I take myself way too seriously. I’m too earnest. To top it all off, I am not sure how...
Author archive for: Bonner
Report from the Field: Justice
This Report from the Field is a post authored by Jody Hobbs Hesler regarding her account of her personal experiences with the Title IX process...
Report from the Field: The Poet as Beginning Mother
It was October and I was thirteen. On the bright car ride home from school, my dad told me my older brother Will had died....
Report from the Field: Embodied Writing Can Be Your New Activism
On Saturday, January 21, 2017, I discovered that my body is not made for protest marches. Since the election and the ensuing rhetoric coming from...
Report from the Field: Just Dangerous Enough
It is the first month of school and even after fifteen years of this routine, September still feels like the actual New Year for those...
Report from the Field: A Catalog of Exchanges: When Men (Don’t) Read My Words
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...
Many Englishes: On Editing and Power
“Can I say this?” I would ask my American partner every time (everytime) I doubted the use of a preposition or felt like I was...
Meet the Charrettes
Some years ago, a poet friend who had moved away was back in Cambridge for a visit and invited a few friends to meet up...
Failing at Subjects: The Poetics of the Living Idea
I am not not an academic; and I am not not a failure. These double negatives vibrate for me, which is a way of saying...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Monica Drake!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales, edited by Gigi Little. Surreal,...
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