22.052018September 10, 2019
Nepantla’s Queer Women of Color Odes to Literary Ancestors

Nepantla’s Queer Women of Color Odes to Literary Ancestors

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Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color is coming out from Nightboat Books on May 1, 2018, though I originally began editing this...

31.082017September 10, 2019
Guarding the Self: Some Notes from the Commute

Guarding the Self: Some Notes from the Commute

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The importance of protecting the inner life against the stresses and assaults of ordinary life seems to be on everyone’s minds lately. Vox Populi published...

06.072016November 12, 2019
The Invisible Latina Intellectual

The Invisible Latina Intellectual

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I am 44 years old, almost completely grey, have three degrees, including a Ph.D. in English/Latinx literature, and on a regular basis my colleagues tell...

30.012016September 10, 2019
VIDA Read with Writers – Rachel McKibbens!

VIDA Read with Writers – Rachel McKibbens!

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What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m currently reading Phillip B. Williams‘ fanged book of poems Thief in...

28.062015September 10, 2019
Report From The Field: The Defensive Male Writer

Report From The Field: The Defensive Male Writer

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There are so many very important articles on the victimization of women in society.  And this is not one of them. Nope. This is an...

22.062015September 10, 2019
ROUNDTABLE: POLICING THE OTHER IN THE LITERARY WORLD

ROUNDTABLE: POLICING THE OTHER IN THE LITERARY WORLD

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This conversation, moderated by Hoa Nguyen, took place on March 29, 2015. Hoa sent out a preliminary list of questions meant to spark the conversation,...

13.062015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: To Lift Off My Veil

Report from the Field: To Lift Off My Veil

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When I began considering Anne Sexton, the American poet who could not bear the sexism of the mid-20th century Western world, and read in her...

24.042015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field– Speak Test: The Silencing of the Racialized Body

Report from the Field– Speak Test: The Silencing of the Racialized Body

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In my third year as an MFA student, I received an email from my English department requesting that I schedule and pass a Spoken English...