Where Is She? Two Contemporary Poets on Erasure, Gendered Violence, & Poetry

Where Is She? Two Contemporary Poets on Erasure, Gendered Violence, & Poetry

Sarah Clark: She May Be a Saint utilizes Sylvia Plath’s work as source material, and All the Twists of the Tongue is a collection of found...

Discussing Resistance and Hope: Mini-Interviews with Cyree Jarelle Johnson & Naomi Ortiz

Discussing Resistance and Hope: Mini-Interviews with Cyree Jarelle Johnson & Naomi Ortiz

“I felt scared and powerless the evening of Election Day 2016. The term ‘resistance’ became popular and commonplace in the news with the start of...

Poetry As Offering: To Practice In Poetry & Live In The Body-Mind

Poetry As Offering: To Practice In Poetry & Live In The Body-Mind

Chicago is my hometown, I grew up here as a poor brown queer awkward butch girl, and snuck into open mics at Aloha Café to...

Lessons In Refusing Description

Lessons In Refusing Description

N’dee, queer, nonbinary. There is a certain level of difficulty I experience in trying to remember a time when I did not feel anxiety in...

Body of a Poem: If language makes us visible

Body of a Poem: If language makes us visible

“I swear, you will wake— & mistake these walls for skin.” —from: Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong, by Ocean Vuong I don’t like to think...

Body of a Poem: The Public Won’t Let Me Be Personal

Body of a Poem: The Public Won’t Let Me Be Personal

Been wanting to get a haircut. Maybe clip my nails. Perhaps give away a toe or two. A hand, then the arm. Just give it...

The Sword

The Sword

Vera Black walks the line as she empties her email, but in a death march kind of way. She finds herself rummaging through routine rejection...

Body of a Poem: La Loca

Body of a Poem: La Loca

I remember it like it was today because it was yesterday, maybe this week, this month, or I’m not sure. I remember a group of...