Genevieve Pfeiffer: You write about violence, and pain. One poem, in particular, “A Good Life” stayed with me so that I had to come back...
Archive for tag: trauma
Voices of Bettering American Poetry—Millissa Kingbird
Do you feel that your writing is assumed to be autobiographical? How do you feel about this assumption? Does memoir play a role in your...
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...
VIDA Reviews! I Am Yours, by Reema Zaman
I Am Mine “We tend to think deaths and events are all that require grieving, but selves, choices, habits, and relationships we’ve known, they...
You Can Find Familiarity in Any Space You Go: A Conversation With Carlina Duan
Nearing the one year birthday of I Wore My Blackest Hair, I was drawn to revisiting this collection of poems. I’m really excited by first...
Living in Liminality: Working with the Wounds of Trauma through Altered States & Poison Medicine
Adapted from a keynote given at the 2018 Transformative Language Arts Network Power of Words Conference +++ What is the center what is the center...
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,...
VIDA Reviews! Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay
Content note: this piece discusses the trauma and minimization of sexual misconduct In the introduction of Not That Bad, Roxane Gay begins, “When I was...
Violences in Language
Recalling the days after Bush’s re-election, Toni Morrison wrote an article for The Nation outlining the strategies malicious forces use to take control of the...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Hannah Rego
What has been left unsaid about the relationship between mental health and writing? Writing keeps me alive, yes, and writing makes it harder to live,...