What advice do you have for young and emerging writers, particularly of marginalized identities? What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? (This question is funny...
Archive for tag: Patricia Smith
Poetry As Offering: To Practice In Poetry & Live In The Body-Mind
Chicago is my hometown, I grew up here as a poor brown queer awkward butch girl, and snuck into open mics at Aloha Café to...
Literatura, Música, y (Huracán) María: Reflections from the Diaspora
“Maria’s thunder skirts flew high when she danced” —from “Siblings” in Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith “No hemos contado aún a los muertos, no sabemos nada...
A Dossier of Red Flags: Literary Encounters with (White, Straight, Cis) Men
I was eleven years old the first time I submitted my writing for literary consideration: a state-wide short fiction contest open to all middle and...
