A Poet’s Encounter Ladies Lazarus is a work of creative nonfiction that offers the experience of poetry to me. Language that transports you to a...
Archive for tag: mental illness
Made of Warring Parts: An Interview with Linette Reeman & torrin a. greathouse
Sarah Clark: Both of your chapbooks are so viscerally about the body. Can you tell me how you conceptualize of bodies, in a broader sense,...
Discussing Resistance and Hope: Mini-Interviews with Cyree Jarelle Johnson & Naomi Ortiz
“I felt scared and powerless the evening of Election Day 2016. The term ‘resistance’ became popular and commonplace in the news with the start of...
Body of a Poem: A Collection of Unfinished Statements
I felt sexy for the first time in a long time when I first wore a binder, like my body was finally something that belonged...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Jos Charles
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? I have...
Notes Toward a New Language: On Women Poets and Nourishment
In 2010 I began to construct an anthology of poetry written by women who had and/or continue to struggle with an eating disorder. The initial...
VIDA Read with Writers – Rachel McKibbens!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m currently reading Phillip B. Williams‘ fanged book of poems Thief in...
Report from the Field: Racial Invisibility and Erasure in the Writing Workshop
In a novel excerpt I turned into workshop, my narrator uses the word “chinky.” My narrator is a Korean American woman speaking to a successful...
Poetry, Community, and Reading the Body
Poetry can be a gateway to empathy, a space of shared vulnerability. It can help audiences navigate the difficult and uncomfortable by offering a creative...