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...
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Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Melissa Studdard
By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags activism, Amy King, art, Audre Lorde, Bettering American Poetry, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, Descartes, Eileen R. Tabios, fear, Hafizah Geter, identity, Interview, Jennifer Givhan, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Kaveh Akbar, Leonora Carrington, literary activism, literature, Lois P. Jones, Melissa Studdard, Pamela Uschuk, patriarchy, poetry, racism, respectability politics, Salomon Grimberg, self-care, sexism, silencing, social change, VIDA