Living in Liminality: Working with the Wounds of Trauma through Altered States & Poison Medicine 

Living in Liminality: Working with the Wounds of Trauma through Altered States & Poison Medicine 

Adapted from a keynote given at the 2018 Transformative Language Arts Network Power of Words Conference +++ What is the center what is the center...

Made of Warring Parts: An Interview with Linette Reeman & torrin a. greathouse

Made of Warring Parts: An Interview with Linette Reeman & torrin a. greathouse

Sarah Clark: Both of your chapbooks are so viscerally about the body. Can you tell me how you conceptualize of bodies, in a broader sense,...

Open the Gates: A Call For Inclusivity in Romance Reviewing

Open the Gates: A Call For Inclusivity in Romance Reviewing

When it comes to the book publishing industry, there are a lot of barriers to inclusivity and diversity. Editors and publishers sometimes claim that books...

VIDA Reviews! Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay

VIDA Reviews! Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay

Content note: this piece discusses the trauma and minimization of sexual misconduct In the introduction of Not That Bad, Roxane Gay begins, “When I was...

Falling to Fly: Letting the Black Female Within Guide as White Supremacy Thrives

Falling to Fly: Letting the Black Female Within Guide as White Supremacy Thrives

In the era before cesarean sections became the norm in my Florida Panhandle hometown, my closest kin learned an outsized, stubborn head, forceps, and a...

Dung-Aw: Conveying the Poetry of Grief

Dung-Aw: Conveying the Poetry of Grief

For writers with the gift of more than one language, what kinds of sounds are we able to make when grieving? From living in this...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Vickie Vértiz

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Vickie Vértiz

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...