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Archive for tag: slam poetry

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

By Sarah ClarkIn FeaturedTags accessibility, Carlos Bulosan, chosen family, chronic pain, community, disability, disability justice, Eli Clare, erasure, femme, Frida Kahlo, gaze, Grace Lee Boggs, June Jordan, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, kyriarchy, Lucy Anderton, Mama Maria Mccray, Martha P. Johnson, migration, open mics, Patricia Smith, Pauli Murray, poetry, Poetry Incubator, queer, ryka aoki, Sins Invalid, slam poetry, special issue, suicide, Tara Betts, transformative justice, Women OutLoud

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...

10.102017September 10, 2019

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

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

By Sarah ClarkIn FeaturedTags academia, Angel Nafis, Aracelis Girmay, assault, community, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Eboni Hogan, ethics, gaslighting, gatekeeping, Greenlight Bookstore Reading Series, Jeanann Verlee, Keomi Tarver, Lynne Procope, Mahogany L. Browne, male gaze, Marilyn Hetzel, Marty McConnell, open mic, organizers, PANK, Patricia Smith, Penmanship Press, poetry, public spaces, Rachel McKibbens, Roxane Gay, Sandra Doe, Sarena Straus, sexism, sexual harassment, Shira Erlichman, silencing, slam poetry, Stevie Edwards, Syreeta McFadden, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Union Station Magazine, Urbana Poetry Slam, Winter Tangerine, Yasmin Belkhyr

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...

03.082017September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Ariana Brown

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Ariana Brown

By Sarah ClarkIn Bettering American PoetryTags Appropriation, Aretha Franklin, Ariana Brown, audience, Bettering American Poetry, Blackness, Bocafloja, CUPSI, Interview, Jacqui Germain, Kirk Franklin, lateral oppression, Loyce Gayo, mestiza, mixed race identity, Performance, performance poetry, poetry, representation, Sasha Banks, slam poetry, Spitshine, unpaid labor, Veronica Chambers, Vicente Fernandez, white proximity, YA

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...

09.012017September 10, 2019

Patricia Smith – VIDA Voices & Views

Patricia Smith – VIDA Voices & Views

By Melissa StuddardIn VIDA Voices & ViewsTags Interview, Melissa Studdard, Patricia Smith, poetry, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, slam poetry, VIDA Voices & Views

06.102016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Fatimah Asghar

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Fatimah Asghar

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags Bettering American Poetry, biography, canon, class, editor bias, Fatimah Asghar, gender, identity, Interview, Islamophobia, literary community, literary landscape, literature, Performance, poetry, reader bias, religion, slam poetry, social media, the count, tokenism, viral

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...

29.092016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — manuel arturo abreu

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — manuel arturo abreu

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags academia, activism, arts funding, Bettering American Poetry, colorism, digital, editorial bias, gender, identity, Interview, Kenneth Goldsmith, literature, Manuel Arturo Abreu, poetry, political writing, privacy, race, reader bias, school-to-prison pipeline, slam poetry, social media, Steve Roggenbuck, tokenization, trans, victim-blaming, writing advice

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...

30.082016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Natalie Eilbert

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Natalie Eilbert

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags academia, Amandla Stenberg, Anne Sexton, Bettering American Poetry, Button Poetry, Candace Williams, canon, Chase Berggrun, comics, community, Crystal Valentine, Daniel José Older, domestic violence, HIV, Hunger Games, Jason Fong, Kim Yideum, literary community, literature, Lo Kaw Mei-en, Louise Gluck, misogynoir, Morgan Parker, Natalie Eilbert, Patricia Lockwood, Paul Tran, Performance, Phantom Books, poetry, PTSD, racism, rape culture, respectability politics, Roxane Gay, safer spaces, self-care, sexism, slam poetry, survivors, Tafisha Edwards, The Rumpus, the unseen, Tory Dent, trauma, trends, trigger warnings, University of Chicago, women in comics

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...

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