Alice Walker has this essay: “Refusing to Be Humbled By Second Place in a Contest You Did Not Design.” In it, she pays tribute to...
Archive for tag: rejection
The Sword
Vera Black walks the line as she empties her email, but in a death march kind of way. She finds herself rummaging through routine rejection...
Compassionate Curating: Your Experience Is Valid
To put it simply, being an editor is difficult—and especially so when you are dealing with work that is crucial, urgent, and traumatic. As an...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — B.B.P. Hosmillo
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...