Dear Current Occupant is non-linear memoir that maps Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in the 80s and 90s. Through writing letters to the occupants of rentals she...
Archive for tag: belonging
Report from the Field: The Fearful I: Confessional Modes of Address and Speaking the Self
When I crested 12 and took the first tentative steps down authorship’s overgrown path, the trees and buzzing insects spoke with the voices of Sylvia...
Body of a Poem: The Public Won’t Let Me Be Personal
Been wanting to get a haircut. Maybe clip my nails. Perhaps give away a toe or two. A hand, then the arm. Just give it...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Eduardo Martinez-Leyva
What’s the earliest experience, or a stand-out experience, you can remember that made you realize that you can be yourself, write as yourself, and write...