What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m finishing up Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Novels. I’m also revisiting Margaret Atwood’s...
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Failing at Subjects: The Poetics of the Living Idea
I am not not an academic; and I am not not a failure. These double negatives vibrate for me, which is a way of saying...
Report from the Field: The Silence of a Siren
At 8am I have students hunched over their copies of The Aeneid with questions from the night before, clarifications rising like exhalations of vapor in...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Tisa Bryant!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’ve been carrying around and nibbling on Dawn Lundy Martin’s Life In...
VIDA Reads with Writers – Sheila Black!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I just finished M Train by Patti Smith. I loved it because...
VIDA Reads with Writers – Monica Wendel!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I just finished Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, which is motivating me to run —...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Carina del Valle Schorske!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Poetry was made for the wiggle room in a tight day. Today,...
VIDA Reads with Writers – TC Tolbert!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m always in the midst of several books at once b/c once...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Wendy C. Ortiz!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Butcher’s Tree by Feng Sun Chen and Maison Femme by Teresa Carmody What book...
Report from the Field: Letter to C
Dear C, I am thinking of quitting poetry to sing. Maybe my voice will be more welcome there than at poetry readings. I came here...