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Archive for category: Bettering American Poetry

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11.092016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Christopher Soto

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags Bettering American Poetry, Christopher Soto, Christopher Soto (aka Loma), community, Danez Smith, discrimination, Eduardo C Corral, Eileen Myles, Elisa Gonzalez, Federico García Lorca, identity, Javier Zamora, June Jordan, Langston Hughes, Loma, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, music, Natalie Diaz, Nepantla, Ocean Vuong, queer, Roger Reeves, Roque Dalton, self-care, social media, Solmaz Sharif, surrealism, trauma, Undocupoetry, Undocupoets, writing advice, Yusef Komunyakaa

How do you practice self-care when writing about difficult subject matter? I try not to force myself into retraumatization when writing. I don’t think it’s...

08.092016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Kyle Dargan

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags allyship, Bettering American Poetry, Cave Canem, education, Joy Priest, Kyle Dargan, literature, new south, poetry, propaganda, Southern Writers

Who would you have nominated for this anthology? Is there a poem you have in mind that you could link to? Many writers who I...

06.092016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Jee Leong Koh

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags ageism, american literature, asymptote, AWP, Bettering American Poetry, carcanet press, censorship, colonialism, community, diaspora, discrimination, diversity, homophobia, international poetry, Jee Leong Koh, Lambda Literary, literature, modern poetry in translation, poetry, postcolonial, queer, queerphobia, R. Nemo Hill, representation, self-identification, singapore, steep tea, translations, transphobia, western canon

Who would you have nominated for this anthology? Is there a poem you have in mind that you could link to? I am a longtime...

04.092016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Cynthia Cruz

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags art, audience, bernadette corporation, Bettering American Poetry, Cynthia Cruz, editors, empathy, happenings, honey suckle company, literature, museum of modern art in warsaw, Performance, poetry, poverty

What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? I have been reading books on various artist collectives, including collectively run art spaces as...

01.092016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Arthur Russell

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags Arthur Russell, Bettering American Poetry, literature, poetry, social media

What do you have to say to those who would suggest your writing is too intense or upsetting? You must be reading someone else’s poetry....

30.082016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Natalie Eilbert

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags academia, Amandla Stenberg, Anne Sexton, Bettering American Poetry, Button Poetry, Candace Williams, canon, Chase Berggrun, comics, community, Crystal Valentine, Daniel José Older, domestic violence, HIV, Hunger Games, Jason Fong, Kim Yideum, literary community, literature, Lo Kaw Mei-en, Louise Gluck, misogynoir, Morgan Parker, Natalie Eilbert, Patricia Lockwood, Paul Tran, Performance, Phantom Books, poetry, PTSD, racism, rape culture, respectability politics, Roxane Gay, safer spaces, self-care, sexism, slam poetry, survivors, Tafisha Edwards, The Rumpus, the unseen, Tory Dent, trauma, trends, trigger warnings, University of Chicago, women in comics

What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? I only...

28.082016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Terrell Jamal Terry

By Sarah ClarkIn Bettering American PoetryTags Anais Duplan, Bettering American Poetry, literature, poetry, representation, Terrel Jamal Terry

Do you feel that your writing is necessarily assumed to be autobiographical? How do you feel about this assumption? I use the first person quite frequently....

24.082016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Kenyatta JP Garcia

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags allyship, Aziza Barnes, Bettering American Poetry, Horse Less Review, JH Prynne, Kenyatta JP Garcia, literature, poetry, representation, science fiction, social media, speculative fiction

Do you feel that your writing is necessarily assumed to be autobiographical? How do you feel about this assumption? I would assume that my writing...

23.082016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Bhanu Kapil

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags Appropriation, Bettering American Poetry, Bhanu Kapil, community, experimental poetry, literature, Nightboat Books, poetry, poetry community, political poetry, racism, self-care, writing advice

How do you practice self-care when writing about difficult subject matter? Titration. What poets do you identify with, or feel you are grouped with by...

22.082016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags Aziza Barnes, Bettering American Poetry, Button Poetry, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, identity, literature, poetry, self-care, social media, twitter, writing

What advice do you have for young and emerging writers, particularly of marginalized identities? What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? I think the best...

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