Nearing the one year birthday of I Wore My Blackest Hair, I was drawn to revisiting this collection of poems. I’m really excited by first...
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Body of a Poem: You Cannot Make Home In A Lie
Presence teaches me, through all complexity—this mass and mess of body animate with breath—that gender is irreducible. i can remember not having it, or not...
VIDA Reads with Writers – Tyrese L. Coleman!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m taking it back to the old school and reading I KNOW...
VIDA Honored as Literary Advocates at the 2018 Authors Guild Foundation’s Annual Benefit
Women authors and independent, mission-driven publishing were honored at this year’s Authors Guild Foundation’s Annual Benefit. The black-tie gala, held at the elegant Gotham Hall...
VIDA Reviews! Kingdom of Women by Rosalie Morales Kearns
A cursory reading of Rosalie Morales Kearns’s glorious new novel, Kingdom of Women (Jaded Ibis Press, 2017), would position it as a fantasy of female...
Notes on Femme and Fiction
I’m 15 and my girlfriend, my first girlfriend, is sitting before me on the floor wearing a tie. She can’t wear the tie at home....
Report from the Field: Poets on Strike, Irish Women Poets and the Canon
This Report from the Field includes a republication of Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon’s pledge in response to the ongoing conversation surrounding gender...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Cameron Awkward-Rich
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 — 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...