30.122015September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Morgan Parker

VIDA Reads with Writers – Morgan Parker

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1.) What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Khadijah Queen’s Fearful Beloved, out now from Argos Books. 2.) What book popped...

29.072015November 12, 2019
Finding Home Through Literature: A Study of Filipino Fiction

Finding Home Through Literature: A Study of Filipino Fiction

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All my life, I felt ashamed because I was born in America. Growing up in Los Angeles, CA, in the nineties, an American, to me,...

06.072015November 12, 2019
Poetry, Community, and Reading the Body

Poetry, Community, and Reading the Body

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Poetry can be a gateway to empathy, a space of shared vulnerability. It can help audiences navigate the difficult and uncomfortable by offering a creative...

13.062015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: To Lift Off My Veil

Report from the Field: To Lift Off My Veil

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When I began considering Anne Sexton, the American poet who could not bear the sexism of the mid-20th century Western world, and read in her...

18.112014September 9, 2019
Against Our Own Best Time: Competition Among Writers in the Margins

Against Our Own Best Time: Competition Among Writers in the Margins

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In the small town where I grew up, I was strange and lonely. Books were my solution. The page was the easiest place to name...

17.112014September 9, 2019
Report From the Field: White People Love Me: Dispatches From The Token

Report From the Field: White People Love Me: Dispatches From The Token

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I get along with white people really well. Growing up, they brought peppermint bark down the cul-de-sac to my parents’ house every Christmas. They smiled...