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...
Archive for tag: Women
VIDA Reviews! Kingdom of Women by Rosalie Morales Kearns
A cursory reading of Rosalie Morales Kearns’s glorious new novel, Kingdom of Women (Jaded Ibis Press, 2017), would position it as a fantasy of female...
On Playing the Nice Woman
I am on an airplane, wearing jeans and a leatherette biker jacket. To my mind the look is Joan Jett tough; likely it’s more “chemistry...
Interview with Editors of Nasty Women Poets
Sarah Fawn talks to Grace Bauer and Julie Kane, editors of Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (2017, Lost Horse Press). Sarah...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Xandria Phillips
What’s the earliest experience, or a stand-out experience, you can remember that made you realize that you can be yourself, write as yourself, and write...
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...
AWP Women’s Caucus Reading
Kick off AWP 2017 with The AWP Women’s Caucus! Join us at the famed Busboys and Poets: 5th & K (1025 5th Street NW, Washington, DC) for...
Jenn Monroe in Conversation with E. Kristin Anderson!
HYSTERIA, a new anthology about writing the female body from Lucky Bastard Press (http://www.luckybastardpress.com/our-books.html), is a collection of poetry, microfiction, lyric essays, and hybrid pieces...
HELP VIDA CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR *ALL* WOMEN IN LITERARY ARTS!
PLEASE SUPPORT VIDA’S PRESENT & FUTURE VIDA stands for accountability, transparency and change. We work for gender parity and justice. And we depend on you, our community of supporters,...
List of Women-Run Presses
This list exists because I went looking for this resource and couldn’t find it. Earlier this fall, I began planning a reading series where each...