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Archive for tag: writing
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...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 – Chia-Lun Chang
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...
Notes on Femme and Fiction
I’m 15 and my girlfriend, my first girlfriend, is sitting before me on the floor wearing a tie. She can’t wear the tie at home....
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...
Report from the Field: The Poet as Beginning Mother
It was October and I was thirteen. On the bright car ride home from school, my dad told me my older brother Will had died....
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 Volume 2 — Cameron Awkward-Rich
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...
On Writing As Liberation
I. What is the word ‘expression?’ An utterance, a declaration, a representation. Of feeling, of thought, of character. Becoming a radical against silence, expression is...