13.112018September 10, 2019
Poetry As Offering: To Practice In Poetry & Live In The Body-Mind

Poetry As Offering: To Practice In Poetry & Live In The Body-Mind

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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...

01.082018September 10, 2019
News Flash: There’s No Central Office Called #MeToo

News Flash: There’s No Central Office Called #MeToo

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1 I’d already had a bad day when I read Daphne Merkin’s now-infamous Op-Ed in The New York Times, “Publicly, We Say #MeToo. Privately, We...

09.072018September 6, 2019
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 – 최 Lindsay

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 – 최 Lindsay

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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...

03.072018September 10, 2019
Karaoke with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un

Karaoke with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un

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I bypass the self-serve cereal cart on the patio, the subterranean foam party pulsing with sweaty go-go dancers, the dorm room where dozens of well-dressed...

30.052018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: The Fearful I: Confessional Modes of Address and Speaking the Self

Report from the Field: The Fearful I: Confessional Modes of Address and Speaking the Self

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When I crested 12 and took the first tentative steps down authorship’s overgrown path, the trees and buzzing insects spoke with the voices of Sylvia...

22.052018September 10, 2019
Nepantla’s Queer Women of Color Odes to Literary Ancestors

Nepantla’s Queer Women of Color Odes to Literary Ancestors

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Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color is coming out from Nightboat Books on May 1, 2018, though I originally began editing this...