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24.082017September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Ruth Awad

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Ruth Awad

By Sarah ClarkIn Bettering American PoetryTags advice, Allison Titus, allyship, Bettering American Poetry, censorship, community, depression, Doctor Who, dogs, fascism, Game of Thrones, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Islamophobia, Kaveh Akbar, Lebanese Civil War, loss, poetry, Ruth Awad, Samantha Irby, social media, surveillance state, The Leftovers, Trump, Zeina Hashem Beck, Zeina Maasri

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...

24.072017September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — torrin a. greathouse

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — torrin a. greathouse

By Sarah ClarkIn Bettering American PoetryTags anime, autobiography, Bettering American Poetry, Black Napkin Press, childhood abuse, Christina Im, Christopher Soto, collaboration, Daniel Blokh, disability, disability poetry, empathy, gender, gender-based violence, George Abraham, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Interview, Jasmine Cui, Jeanann Verlee, Kaveh Akbar, Khaya Osborne, Linette Reeman, literary activism, Liv Mammone, Logan February, Nicole Connolly, Noor Jaber, Ocean Vuong, Performance, persona, poetry, queer poetry, sex work, sexual assault, Siaara Freeman, social media, torrin a greathouse

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...

16.042017September 10, 2019

Report from the Field: Too Big To Fuck Up

Report from the Field: Too Big To Fuck Up

By Sarah ClarkIn Reports from the FieldTags abuse, accountability, allyship, emotional labor, gatekeeping, Ginger Ko, literary community, male fragility, microaggression, nice guy, patriarchy, Reports from the Field, sexism, social media, survivors, unpaid labor, victim-blaming

I’ve had straight cis men do fucked up things to me. I’ve been witness to straight cis men doing fucked up things to others. It...

04.032017November 12, 2019

Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces

Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces

By Sarah ClarkIn FeaturedTags Adam Fitzgerald, Appropriation, Black literary spaces, Claudia Rankine, collective trauma, Compassionate Curating, curating, Dawn Lundy Martin, diversity, editing, Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah, emotional labor, exploitation, gender, hate crimes, identity, intersectionality, Kyra, LG Parker, literary community, Love Letters to Spooks, poetry, police brutality, racism, Sarah Maria Medina, sexuality, social media, solicitation, spectacle, tokenization, transphobia, trigger warnings, unpaid labor, violence against women, white guilt, whiteness, Winter Tangerine, Xandria Phillips, Yasmin Belkyr

I will always remember this past summer as one riddled with Black death. I was living in isolation at the time, with my parents in...

21.112016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Rachel Eliza Griffiths

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags Angel Nafis, Ari Banias, art, autobiography, Aziza Barnes, Bettering American Poetry, community, Diane Arbus, grief, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jayson P Smith, Jeremy Clark, June Jordan, Kerry James Marshall, literature, Luke Cage, photography, poetry, police brutality, police state, privacy, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, racism, Ricardo Hernandez, Rio Cortez, Rita Dove, Robin Coste Lewis, self-care, social media, Solange, surveillance, systemic oppression, truth, visibility, white gaze

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

11.102016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Hayan Charara

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Hayan Charara

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags academia, academic racism, Arab American poetry, Arab identity, Bettering American Poetry, Fady Joudah, Hayan Charara, identity, implicit bias, Interview, literature, Marilyn Hacker, Mark Doty, Nick Flynn, poetry, racism, self-care, social media, stereotypes, Tony Hoagland, twitter poems, writing workshops, xenophobia

How do you practice self-care when writing about difficult subject matter? When I’m writing about a rough experience, I try to get into it deeper...

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...

02.102016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Joanna C Valente

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Joanna C Valente

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags authenticity, Bettering American Poetry, censorship, cissexism, coming out, community, femme identity, gender, gender fluid, gender performance, identity, Interview, Joanna C Valente, Joanna Valente, literature, mindfulness, non-binary, patriarchy, persona, poetry, queer, rape culture, self-care, self-identification, sexism, sexual assault, slut-shaming, social media, somatic writing, surveillance state, Toni Morrison, trauma, writing advice

What do you have to say to those who would suggest your writing is too intense or upsetting? Life is upsetting and intense, so why...

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...

25.092016September 6, 2019

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Amber Atiya

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Amber Atiya

By VIDAIn Bettering American PoetryTags activism, allyship, Amber Atiya, Aziza Barnes, Bettering American Poetry, Interview, literature, poetry, police brutality, self-care, social media, surveillance state

How do you practice self-care when writing about difficult subject matter? I listen to songs for the Orishas, Minnie Riperton, Stevie Wonder. Or I sit...

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