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04.112015September 10, 2019

Report from the Field: Let’s Shake the One

By Sheila McMullinIn Reports from the Field

We’ve recently wrapped our third annual e-chapbook contest and after an intense editorial and production process, are about to launch the poetry and fiction manuscripts...

28.092015September 10, 2019

Report from the Field: Letter to C

By Jessica ReidyIn Reports from the FieldTags anne carson, body, books, Brenda Hillman, carrie lorig, class, colonization, Danez Smith, fall out, food, full, Hilary Gravendyk, kelin, maggie nelson, man, manspread, my fault, poetry, poetry reading, race, reading as a wildflower activist, roland barthes, slash, space, speaking, subway, talk, the argonauts, Wayne Koestenbaum, weight, woman, writing, Youna Kwak

Dear C, I am thinking of quitting poetry to sing. Maybe my voice will be more welcome there than at poetry readings. I came here...

09.092015November 12, 2019

Report from the Field: Language is Home.

By Sheila McMullinIn Reports from the Field

My high school had a system in place to deal with recent immigrants. All students from abroad were moved a year behind and had to...

01.092015September 10, 2019

Report from the Field: The Other Section

By Jessica ReidyIn Reports from the FieldTags abuse, Adrienne Rich, bi-racial, career, civil rights, class, daughter, desire, education, ethnicity, family, Feminism, feminist theory, gender, grandmother, great-grandmother, heritage, identity, indigenous rights, intersectionality, Interview, marriage, Mexican-American, mother, opportunity, oprah, poverty, power, pregnancy, privilege, race, sex, sexual abuse, storytelling, suffrage, white, women's rights

I attempt to practice a feminism rooted essentially in intersectionality. As a woman who has had the privilege of studying feminist theory that illuminates the...

31.082015November 12, 2019

Report from the Field: Poetry in Late Capitalism

By Sheila McMullinIn Reports from the Field

When I first moved to San Francisco, I went to a Chinese restaurant on Kearny Street. The restaurant was very small—with only about ten tables—and...

31.082015November 12, 2019

Report from the Field: I Stood There Ironing…

By Sheila McMullinIn Reports from the Field

I was twenty-three and living in a tiny, severely tilted, $150-a-month Greenwich Village studio when Tillie Olsen’s Silences was published. I borrowed a copy from...

28.072015November 12, 2019