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...
Archive for tag: stereotypes
Body of a Poem: La Loca
I remember it like it was today because it was yesterday, maybe this week, this month, or I’m not sure. I remember a group of...
Compassionate Curating: Editing Halal If You Hear Me
Fatimah Asghar: There are as many ways of being Muslim as there are Muslims. That was the first thing that Safia and I talked about when...
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...
Report from the Field: About the (Queer) Author
A few weeks ago, a rejection email popped into my inbox. That’s not exactly unusual; dealing with a constant stream of rejections (punctuated, happily, with...
The Female Body at the Front of the Room
I found myself at the front of a college classroom for the first time in 2005. I’d just begun my teaching assistantship for a Master’s...
On Parsing
A few months ago, Claire Vaye Watkins’ courageous piece, On Pandering was published on the web site for the literary magazine Tin House. I watched...
Report from the Field: Youth Poetry Slam
Every year, a poetry slam is held at Poets House in Manhattan. Boys and girls from high schools and middle schools all over NYC come...