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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‘(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...
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...
When The Stars Fell On Starlee… And Me
If I were asked to make a list of the podcasts I listen to over and over again, almost all of them would be written...
You Can Find Familiarity in Any Space You Go: A Conversation With Carlina Duan
Nearing the one year birthday of I Wore My Blackest Hair, I was drawn to revisiting this collection of poems. I’m really excited by first...
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,...
VIDA Not So Feckless Roundtable
Sarah Fawn: How did this the idea for this anthology come about? What prompted your role and vision as an editor? Susan: I became a...
On Labor’s Value
In the twilight stillness, I watch my son while he sleeps. My partner and I share the responsibilities of feeding him throughout the day. As...
Discussing Resistance and Hope: Mini-Interviews with Cyree Jarelle Johnson & Naomi Ortiz
“I felt scared and powerless the evening of Election Day 2016. The term ‘resistance’ became popular and commonplace in the news with the start of...