Literatura, Música, y (Huracán) María: Reflections from the Diaspora

Literatura, Música, y (Huracán) María: Reflections from the Diaspora

“Maria’s thunder skirts flew high when she danced” —from “Siblings” in Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith “No hemos contado aún a los muertos, no sabemos nada...

VIDA Reviews! Sharp by Michelle Dean

VIDA Reviews! Sharp by Michelle Dean

Women today are still fighting a fight that began in the 1970s—namely, to carve out their own space in the canon of cultural greatness. The...

Report from the Field: On Publishing a First Book at [almost] 50

Report from the Field: On Publishing a First Book at [almost] 50

In the summer of 2015, I opened the covers of a book and read aloud to a sizable audience inside an elegant black box theater....