Genevieve Pfeiffer: You write about violence, and pain. One poem, in particular, “A Good Life” stayed with me so that I had to come back...
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Voices of Bettering American Poetry—Millissa Kingbird
Do you feel that your writing is assumed to be autobiographical? How do you feel about this assumption? Does memoir play a role in your...
VIDA Reviews! First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story by Huda Al-Marashi
The year I turned twenty-nine was one of the best years of my life. In the space of six months, I successfully defended my doctoral...
‘(what) is a trauma response’: #MeToo, Fake News, and Transreal Ecopoetics
I. It’s late summer. Wet asphalt simmers in still heat, glazed neon by barlights. Trains screech to a halt overhead, crowds jostling...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 – Keegan Lester
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...
Where Is She? Two Contemporary Poets on Erasure, Gendered Violence, & Poetry
Sarah Clark: She May Be a Saint utilizes Sylvia Plath’s work as source material, and All the Twists of the Tongue is a collection of found...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry—Nico Amador
What poets do you identify with, or feel you are grouped with by editors, readers, conference organizers, or educators? What misconceptions do you see about...
Joy Harjo – VIDA Voices & Views
About This Episode: In This episode of VIDA Voices and Views, produced by R. J. Jeffreys, Melissa Studdard speaks with celebrated poet, author, musician, and playwright, Joy Harjo,...
VIDA Review Reviews! Mary Kovaleski Byrnes’ So Long the Sky
Home—Pennsylvania and Poland—ancestry, immigrant aunts, and travel to several European cities form the basis of Mary Kovaleski Byrnes’ book So Long the Sky (Platypus Press)....
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3—E. J. Koh
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...