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Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Ruth Awad
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? Who would...
Report from the Field: Just Dangerous Enough
It is the first month of school and even after fifteen years of this routine, September still feels like the actual New Year for those...
Body of a Poem: Genrequeer and Genderqueer in Alabama
Most of the jokes I hear about Alabama from my Northern liberal friends have nothing to do with the gorgeous, fierce resistance that I see...
Body of a Poem: A Collection of Unfinished Statements
I felt sexy for the first time in a long time when I first wore a binder, like my body was finally something that belonged...
Body of a Poem: editorial discretion
What it doesn’t feel like: A constant, inherent, unerring wrongness—marrow-deep and strangling like mis-delivered chromosomes tied around my neck. A wrong order, a mistake in...
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...
Compassionate Curating: Editing Halal If You Hear Me
Fatimah Asghar: There are as many ways of being Muslim as there are Muslims. That was the first thing that Safia and I talked about when...
AWP Women’s Caucus Reading
Kick off AWP 2017 with The AWP Women’s Caucus! Join us at the famed Busboys and Poets: 5th & K (1025 5th Street NW, Washington, DC) for...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Rachel Eliza Griffiths
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? I’m rereading...