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Archive for category: Reports from the Field
Report from the Field: A Catalog of Exchanges: When Men (Don’t) Read My Words
You are apparently famous, though I have never heard of you. You workshop my piece at a prestigious writing workshop in California. It is my...
Report from the Field: Drunken Boat Is Now Anomaly
This Report from the Field is a republication of Erica Mena-Landry’s personal blog post regarding the developing controversy regarding literary figure Ravi Shankar. ~~~ [A...
Report from the Field: Nasty, Nastier, Nastiest
I get called some form of nasty every day. It is part of my identity as a rigorous female teacher at an all-male prep school....
Report from the Field: On Publishing a First Book at [almost] 50
In the summer of 2015, I opened the covers of a book and read aloud to a sizable audience inside an elegant black box theater....
Report from the Field: Too Big To Fuck Up
I’ve had straight cis men do fucked up things to me. I’ve been witness to straight cis men doing fucked up things to others. It...
Reports from the Field: Good Intentions: What Being Disabled at #AWP17 Was Like
I’m sitting at the booth for the literary magazine where I work for free but with great privilege when a woman approaches. She says she...
Report from the Field: The Silence of a Siren
At 8am I have students hunched over their copies of The Aeneid with questions from the night before, clarifications rising like exhalations of vapor in...
Report from the Field: To Go to Sea: Making a Place in a Male Literary Landscape
The first real poet I got to know was my teacher for two weeks at the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference, the summer I turned 18....
Report from the Field: Speaking Into Silences
I was afraid to write this essay. I have never written a personal essay. I write poetry, in which content is delivered through an experience...