The Authored Self

The Authored Self

Writing, for me, means freedom. Which is to say, everything prior to discovering writing was entrapment. You cannot desire freedom, you cannot be gripped by...

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...

Report from the Field: On (Not) Reporting Sexual Violence

Report from the Field: On (Not) Reporting Sexual Violence

During my first six months of graduate school I was stalked and sexually harassed by a guy in my cohort. We were both about thirty...