A Greater Love: A review of Eleni Sikelianos’s Make Yourself Happy Make Yourself Happy is the last in a long line of brilliantly named poetry...
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Conformity’s Labor & Tips to Make Poetry Events More Accessible to People who are D/deaf or Hard of Hearing
When I was leading anti-bias retreats at the University of Richmond, I also founded a campus-wide book discussion series focused on justice issues. One year,...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Zeina Hashem Beck
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? I haven’t...

VIDA Reviews! There Is a Case That I Am, by torrin a. greathouse
torrin a. greathouse’s There Is a Case That I Am (2017, Damaged Goods Press) is concerned with the mathematics of the body torn asunder because...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Lisa Summe
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...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Anaïs Duplan
What’s the earliest experience, or a stand-out experience, you can remember that made you realize that you can be yourself, write as yourself, and write...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 – Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Do you differentiate between poetry/art and “political” poetry/art? If so, how do you make that distinction? There’s no distinction, and frankly, I’m immediately suspect of...

Report from the Field: Holding Your Now-Defunct Publisher Accountable When They Refuse To Honor Your Contract or Return Your Emails: A Memoir
This Report from the Field is the author’s account of events regarding the developing controversy regarding a member of the poetry community. In mid-November, a...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 – Chia-Lun Chang
What’s the earliest experience, or a stand-out experience, you can remember that made you realize that you can be yourself, write as yourself, and write...

The White Fists of Old Letters: On Being Plathian
I. October 5, 2017 It’s hard to say when my work was first called Plathian. It certainly could have been during a senior year college...