Made of Warring Parts: An Interview with Linette Reeman & torrin a. greathouse

Made of Warring Parts: An Interview with Linette Reeman & torrin a. greathouse

Sarah Clark: Both of your chapbooks are so viscerally about the body. Can you tell me how you conceptualize of bodies, in a broader sense,...

Aut Lit By Neurotypicals; Or, Another Case Of “Where Are The Women?”

Aut Lit By Neurotypicals; Or, Another Case Of “Where Are The Women?”

Does the trend piece make the trend? When it comes to sub-genres such as women’s literature or lesbian and gay literature, the field’s development hinges...

Body of a Poem: Genrequeer and Genderqueer in Alabama

Body of a Poem: Genrequeer and Genderqueer in Alabama

Most of the jokes I hear about Alabama from my Northern liberal friends have nothing to do with the gorgeous, fierce resistance that I see...

Body of a Poem: Transition as Act of Consent//Writing as Act of Consent//Ghosts as Act of Consent

Body of a Poem: Transition as Act of Consent//Writing as Act of Consent//Ghosts as Act of Consent

I. When I began thinking about hormonal transition—long after I had articulated a gender of in-betweenness to myself—it was in the middle of a long...

Compassionate Curating: Your Experience Is Valid

Compassionate Curating: Your Experience Is Valid

To put it simply, being an editor is difficult—and especially so when you are dealing with work that is crucial, urgent, and traumatic. As an...

Compassionate Curating: Editing Halal If You Hear Me

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 — 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...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

What poets do you identify with, or feel you are grouped with by editors, readers, conference organizers, or educators? What misconceptions do you see about...