How does performance fit into your writing? If we’re talking about “performance poetry” then my physical reincarnation of a poetic memory has dwindled. I’m not...
Archive for tag: gender performance
Body of a Poem: Clown
The story of my father lives in my body as precise as clockwork. The story of my father during summer is an easier one to...
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...
Report from the Field: The Fearful I: Confessional Modes of Address and Speaking the Self
When I crested 12 and took the first tentative steps down authorship’s overgrown path, the trees and buzzing insects spoke with the voices of Sylvia...
Conformity’s Labor & Tips to Make Poetry Events More Accessible to People who are D/deaf or Hard of Hearing
When I was leading anti-bias retreats at the University of Richmond, I also founded a campus-wide book discussion series focused on justice issues. One year,...
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...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Joanna C Valente
What do you have to say to those who would suggest your writing is too intense or upsetting? Life is upsetting and intense, so why...