Spam Stigma: An Open Letter to White People

Spam Stigma: An Open Letter to White People

Dear bougie white people of America— I am a SPAM®-Eater—and I am not ashamed. Yes, you read that right. I eat Spam. You know, that...

Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics

Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics

Gwendolyn Brooks had already become the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry when fellow poet Marianne Moore sent this letter...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Hayan Charara

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Hayan Charara

How do you practice self-care when writing about difficult subject matter? When I’m writing about a rough experience, I try to get into it deeper...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — B.B.P. Hosmillo

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — B.B.P. Hosmillo

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 — Phillip B. Williams

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Phillip B. Williams

Do you feel that your writing is necessarily assumed to be autobiographical? How do you feel about this assumption? I think there is an assumption...