A Poet’s Encounter Ladies Lazarus is a work of creative nonfiction that offers the experience of poetry to me. Language that transports you to a...
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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...
Other Writers’ Mothers: Some Reflections on Representing Family
I wish I could get my mother to understand the poetic logic of my storytelling -Ruth Behar That wasn’t nice -Ruth Behar’s mother Not long ago, I...
Editor’s Corner #7: Judy Berman & Niina Pollari for It’s Complicated
Welcome to the 7th installment of Editor’s Corner, a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore complex issues regarding sex, gender, race and sexuality...