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...
Archive for tag: Danez Smith
Body of a Poem: Neither Here nor There, Asexual and Agender in the Literary World
It hurts when even my sisters look at me in the street with cold and silent eyes. I am defined as other in every group...
Falling to Fly: Letting the Black Female Within Guide as White Supremacy Thrives
In the era before cesarean sections became the norm in my Florida Panhandle hometown, my closest kin learned an outsized, stubborn head, forceps, and a...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Melissa Studdard
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...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Christopher Soto
How do you practice self-care when writing about difficult subject matter? I try not to force myself into retraumatization when writing. I don’t think it’s...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Ocean Vuong!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Christopher Soto’s Sad Girl Poems and Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs To You....
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...