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Author archive for: mcmullin
Report from the Field: Gone from My Heart: Violence and Anger in the Poetry Workshop
It’s the first week of the poetry unit in my introductory creative writing class. “Raise your hand if you wrote poems in high school,” I...
TANGENTIAL DIVAGATION: Notes of an Immigrant Daughter
“Find a way to keep alive and write. There is nothing else to say.” — James Baldwin, “The Art of Fiction No. 78,” Paris Review...
Report from the Field: A Problem with the Workshop Model
Among my earliest memories is being laughed at by my father and brother for allegedly trying to pee standing up, proof of toddler penis envy....
Report from the Field: Financial Confessions of a Feminist Organizer
In July I went to a feminist icon costume party to celebrate the first birthday of Out of the Binders, the literary non- profit I...
Report from the Field: Let’s Shake the One
We’ve recently wrapped our third annual e-chapbook contest and after an intense editorial and production process, are about to launch the poetry and fiction manuscripts...
The Unbearable (White) Maleness of US Poetry: And How We Can Enable a Structural Response to Literary Yellowface and Gender Inequity in Publishing
On Labor Day, news broke widely that White writer Michael Derrick Hudson’s poem “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve” is...
Report from the Field: Language is Home.
My high school had a system in place to deal with recent immigrants. All students from abroad were moved a year behind and had to...
Report from the Field: Poetry in Late Capitalism
When I first moved to San Francisco, I went to a Chinese restaurant on Kearny Street. The restaurant was very small—with only about ten tables—and...
Report from the Field: I Stood There Ironing…
I was twenty-three and living in a tiny, severely tilted, $150-a-month Greenwich Village studio when Tillie Olsen’s Silences was published. I borrowed a copy from...