Archive for tag: poetry

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,...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Zaina Alsous
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? Who would...

VIDA Reviews! Inside Me an Island, by Lehua M. Taitano
“Who but a horizon so keenly feels how we are kept at each other’s distance?” asks writer and interdisciplinary artist Lehua M. Taitano in the...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Jacqui Germain
How do you practice self-care when writing about a difficult subject matter? What brings you joy? I’ll answer the question about joy first: laughing. Laughing...

Body of a Poem: Multiple Voices
Writing about identity is a pressure for me as a person of color, a queer person, and a queer person of color. So often it...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Raquel Salas Rivera
How do you practice self-care when writing about a difficult subject matter? What brings you joy? This has been a question I’ve had on my...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Safia Elhillo
How do you practice self-care when writing about difficult subject matters? What brings you joy? I think I am very gentle with myself—sometimes at the...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Dorothy Chan
How does performance fit into your writing? I’m not a “theatrical” performer when it comes to my poetry readings, but my readings do have a...

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...