For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Amy King, VIDA Executive Board aking@vidaweb.org VIDA WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS TO ITS ADVISORY BOARD! March 14,...
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VIDA WELCOMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS HAFIZAH GETER AND KRISTA MANRIQUE!
For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Amy King, VIDA Executive Board aking@vidaweb.org VIDA WELCOMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS HAFIZAH GETER AND KRISTA MANRIQUE!...
VIDA ANNOUNCES LAUREN RUSSELL AS THE WINNER of the 2016 VIDA FELLOWSHIP to THE HOME SCHOOL
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts is delighted to announce that Lauren Russell is the winner of the 2016 VIDA Fellowship to The Home School! She will...
Report from the Field: “Naming Is the First Step”
Recently a piece has made its way around poetry circles via the relatively obscure web lit magazine, Claudius App. Written by “Jacqueline Rigault” and skewering...
The World Is Much Less Safe
“If you know where the light is and it goes out it frightens and pours ice through you. Like somehow you got put out in...
Report from the Field: “THESE THINGS HAPPENED”
When I first told my then-boyfriend that I had been raped more than once, he told me that many bad things can’t happen to one...
Report from the Field: “NO ONE WANTS TO READ ABOUT THEM”
When I was in my early 20s in my MFA program, I had the opportunity to have a consultation with the editor of a major...
Report from the Field: “MISOGYNY ALERT”
I continue to be troubled by what I witnessed at an off-site reading at AWP in Seattle, WA. At this event that brought together musicians...
Introducing: Reports from the Field
Once, when I was in my 20s, I sat at a restaurant after a poetry reading with a small group of writers. The man to...