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

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...

A Dossier of Red Flags: Literary Encounters with (White, Straight, Cis) Men

A Dossier of Red Flags: Literary Encounters with (White, Straight, Cis) Men

I was eleven years old the first time I submitted my writing for literary consideration: a state-wide short fiction contest open to all middle and...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Ariana Brown

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Ariana Brown

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 2015 — Fatimah Asghar

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Fatimah Asghar

What would you like to see change in the literary world, or how would you “better” American poetry? Can American poetry be “bettered?” I think...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — manuel arturo abreu

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — manuel arturo abreu

Do you feel that your writing is necessarily assumed to be autobiographical? How do you feel about this assumption? I do feel that my writing...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Natalie Eilbert

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Natalie Eilbert

What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? I only...