On Bad Behavior: An Interview with Therese Anne Fowler

On Bad Behavior: An Interview with Therese Anne Fowler

On the November 25th cover of The New York Times Magazine, Nancy Pelosi poses in a crisp coral pantsuit and matching heels. Her legs are...

Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics

Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics

Gwendolyn Brooks had already become the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry when fellow poet Marianne Moore sent this letter...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Brittney Scott

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Brittney Scott

What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? A.M. Brant...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Fatimah Asghar

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Fatimah Asghar

What would you like to see change in the literary world, or how would you “better” American poetry? Can American poetry be “bettered?” I think...

VIDA Reads with Writers — Treasure Shields Redmond!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Treasure Shields Redmond!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am reading Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Toni Cade...

Report from the Field: Letter to C

Report from the Field: Letter to C

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...

Report from the Field: The Other Section

Report from the Field: The Other Section

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...