“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...
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Poetry As Offering: To Practice In Poetry & Live In The Body-Mind
Chicago is my hometown, I grew up here as a poor brown queer awkward butch girl, and snuck into open mics at Aloha Café to...
Conformity’s Labor & Tips to Make Poetry Events More Accessible to People who are D/deaf or Hard of Hearing
When I was leading anti-bias retreats at the University of Richmond, I also founded a campus-wide book discussion series focused on justice issues. One year,...
Report from the Field: Behind the Scenes at AWP with members of The Disabled & Deaf Uprising
This Report from the Field is a post by a collective of anonymous writers regarding the developing controversy concerning noted literary convention AWP. We are...
Open-Wide Translation: Centering Intersectional Feminist, Accessible Translating Across Platforms
The following is an adaptation of the presentation “Open-Wide Translation: Centering Intersectional Feminist, Accessible Translating Across Platforms,” given at the Translation in the Margins Symposium,...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Destiny O. Birdsong
We’re living in a police/surveillance state. How has this affected your approach toward poetry, art, persona, and personal presence? As a person of color, my...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Candace Williams
How do you feel about recent conversations about “literary success,” prize culture, personal brands, and the idea of “poetry business?” What are the best ways...
Compassionate Curating: On the (Literal) Cost of a Seat at the Table
Let’s begin with the obvious, the unspoken: making books costs money. More to the point, making books costs someone’s money. And, even more to the...