Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Ruth Awad

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Ruth Awad

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 Volume 2 — torrin a. greathouse

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — 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...

Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces

Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces

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...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Hayan Charara

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Hayan Charara

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...

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 — Joanna C Valente

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Joanna C Valente

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...

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...