Where Is She? Two Contemporary Poets on Erasure, Gendered Violence, & Poetry

Where Is She? Two Contemporary Poets on Erasure, Gendered Violence, & Poetry

Sarah Clark: She May Be a Saint utilizes Sylvia Plath’s work as source material, and All the Twists of the Tongue is a collection of found...

Discussing Resistance and Hope: Mini-Interviews with Cyree Jarelle Johnson & Naomi Ortiz

Discussing Resistance and Hope: Mini-Interviews with Cyree Jarelle Johnson & Naomi Ortiz

“I felt scared and powerless the evening of Election Day 2016. The term ‘resistance’ became popular and commonplace in the news with the start of...

Report from the Field: The Fearful I: Confessional Modes of Address and Speaking the Self

Report from the Field: The Fearful I: Confessional Modes of Address and Speaking the Self

When I crested 12 and took the first tentative steps down authorship’s overgrown path, the trees and buzzing insects spoke with the voices of Sylvia...

Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics

Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics

Gwendolyn Brooks had already become the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry when fellow poet Marianne Moore sent this letter...

The White Fists of Old Letters: On Being Plathian

The White Fists of Old Letters: On Being Plathian

I. October 5, 2017 It’s hard to say when my work was first called Plathian. It certainly could have been during a senior year college...

VIDA Reads with Writers — Mary Jo Bang!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Mary Jo Bang!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Sadly, there are no subways in St. Louis but there are countless...

Report from the Field: I Don’t Know How She Does It

Report from the Field: I Don’t Know How She Does It

I can’t remember the first time I heard the phrase in reference to myself: I don’t know how she does it. Perhaps it was when...

Report from the Field: Some Day You Will Ache Like I Ache–  What Sexualized Language Means to Me

Report from the Field: Some Day You Will Ache Like I Ache– What Sexualized Language Means to Me

Recently my grandmother writes on Facebook under a picture of my, at the time, fourteen-year-old sister: “sexy.” A few days later I see my now...