On Bad Behavior: An Interview with Therese Anne Fowler

On Bad Behavior: An Interview with Therese Anne Fowler

On the November 25th cover of The New York Times Magazine, Nancy Pelosi poses in a crisp coral pantsuit and matching heels. Her legs are...

VIDA Reviews! Sharp by Michelle Dean

VIDA Reviews! Sharp by Michelle Dean

Women today are still fighting a fight that began in the 1970s—namely, to carve out their own space in the canon of cultural greatness. The...

Body of a Poem: Neither Here nor There, Asexual and Agender in the Literary World

Body of a Poem: Neither Here nor There, Asexual and Agender in the Literary World

It hurts when even my sisters look at me in the street with cold and silent eyes. I am defined as other in every group...

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

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...

Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics

Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics

Gwendolyn Brooks had already become the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry when fellow poet Marianne Moore sent this letter...

On Conclusion and Findings: A Conversation Between Yanyi and Catalina Ouyang

On Conclusion and Findings: A Conversation Between Yanyi and Catalina Ouyang

Catalina Ouyang‘s ongoing project Conclusion and Findings (working title) is a participatory event that takes various material forms. The artist invites writers to create poetic...

Report from the Field: Native Women Writers Take on the ‘Indian Du Jour’

Report from the Field: Native Women Writers Take on the ‘Indian Du Jour’

Indian Country and, in particular, the Native writing community, is grieving today because of the scandal (known among many Native women writers for years) that...