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...
Archive for tag: identity
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — jayy dodd
What advice do you have for young and emerging writers, particularly of marginalized identities? What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? There is an unfortunate...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Xandria Phillips
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...
Report from the Field: Home is Where the Women Are
A few months ago, I spotted a video of my mother and her sisters on Facebook. The video was taken at a reunion for a...
On Writing As Liberation
I. What is the word ‘expression?’ An utterance, a declaration, a representation. Of feeling, of thought, of character. Becoming a radical against silence, expression is...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Candace Williams
How do you feel about recent conversations about “literary success,” prize culture, personal brands, and the idea of “poetry business?” What are the best ways...
Compassionate Curating: Editing Halal If You Hear Me
Fatimah Asghar: There are as many ways of being Muslim as there are Muslims. That was the first thing that Safia and I talked about when...
Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces
I will always remember this past summer as one riddled with Black death. I was living in isolation at the time, with my parents in...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Moss Angel Witchmonstr
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? Recent things...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Eduardo Martinez-Leyva
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...