What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am currently reading Whiskey & Ribbons by Lessa Cross-Smith. A friend...
Archive for tag: Octavia Butler

Falling to Fly: Letting the Black Female Within Guide as White Supremacy Thrives
In the era before cesarean sections became the norm in my Florida Panhandle hometown, my closest kin learned an outsized, stubborn head, forceps, and a...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Rio Cortez
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? I’ve been...

VIDA Reads with Writers — Sabina Vanessa Paneva!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am currently in the midst of reading Navajos Wear Nikes by...

VIDA Reads with Writers — Monica Drake!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales, edited by Gigi Little. Surreal,...

In and around 2016 AWP in Los Angeles!
AWP panel not to miss? Radical reading? Offsite panel too hot for AWP? Party to die for? VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts is currently...

VIDA Reads with Writers — Treasure Shields Redmond!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am reading Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Toni Cade...

VIDA Reads with Writers — Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I just got an incredible trifecta of poetry books: Phillip B. Williams’...

“I’m nothing, if not”: An Anecdote of a Jar
To discuss my own entry into writing and publishing, I must admit a contrary relationship to publication, one probably not unique to myself. I feel...