In 2014, I started my first screenplay out of anger. The Michigan Daily, my campus’ newspaper, had released a story on how the University of...
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Author archive for: jmonroe
VIDA Reviews! There Is a Case That I Am, by torrin a. greathouse
torrin a. greathouse’s There Is a Case That I Am (2017, Damaged Goods Press) is concerned with the mathematics of the body torn asunder because...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Anaïs Duplan
What’s the earliest experience, or a stand-out experience, you can remember that made you realize that you can be yourself, write as yourself, and write...
Notes on Femme and Fiction
I’m 15 and my girlfriend, my first girlfriend, is sitting before me on the floor wearing a tie. She can’t wear the tie at home....
On Playing the Nice Woman
I am on an airplane, wearing jeans and a leatherette biker jacket. To my mind the look is Joan Jett tough; likely it’s more “chemistry...
Interview with Editors of Nasty Women Poets
Sarah Fawn talks to Grace Bauer and Julie Kane, editors of Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (2017, Lost Horse Press). Sarah...
Report from the Field: Gender Inequality Within Literary Prize Culture
Prizes aren’t everything. But for literary writers in a world growing less literary, they just might be. Ivor Indyk states that literary prizes function ‘as...
Encountering Diane Wakoski: The Making of Emerald Ice
A docufantasy about the American poet Diane Wakoski It was 2014, I had just been admitted to Northwestern University for graduate school and was asked...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — jayy dodd
What advice do you have for young and emerging writers, particularly of marginalized identities? What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? There is an unfortunate...
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