How does a poet’s work change as her perspectives shift decade after decade? A life containing a publication history as prolific as Etel Adnan’s resonates...
Author archive for: Summe
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
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
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
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...
VIDA Reviews! A Book of Untruths by Miranda Doyle
Lie Like Them: Writing the Unbelievable Parent Who is telling the truth? I wrote this note for myself in the margin of one of my...
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
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 — Christina Olivares
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...
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...