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Made of Warring Parts: An Interview with Linette Reeman & torrin a. greathouse

Made of Warring Parts: An Interview with Linette Reeman & torrin a. greathouse

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Sarah Clark: Both of your chapbooks are so viscerally about the body. Can you tell me how you conceptualize of bodies, in a broader sense,...

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Body of a Poem: Genrequeer and Genderqueer in Alabama

Body of a Poem: Genrequeer and Genderqueer in Alabama

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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...

11.092016September 6, 2019
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Christopher Soto

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Christopher Soto

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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...

06.092016September 6, 2019
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Jee Leong Koh

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Jee Leong Koh

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Who would you have nominated for this anthology? Is there a poem you have in mind that you could link to?  I am a longtime...

21.092015November 12, 2019
The Unbearable (White) Maleness of US Poetry: And How We Can Enable a Structural Response to Literary Yellowface and Gender Inequity in Publishing

The Unbearable (White) Maleness of US Poetry: And How We Can Enable a Structural Response to Literary Yellowface and Gender Inequity in Publishing

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On Labor Day, news broke widely that White writer Michael Derrick Hudson’s poem “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve” is...

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,...

28.062015September 10, 2019
Report From The Field: The Defensive Male Writer

Report From The Field: The Defensive Male Writer

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There are so many very important articles on the victimization of women in society.  And this is not one of them. Nope. This is an...