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Archives of the content previously published by the VIDA Review.

Reports From the Field

Report from the Field: We need Carolyn Reidy to lead the charge to change the culture of the publishing industry.

September 18, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Seeing Is Changing

Report from the Field: Seeing Is Changing

[This Report from the Field is a post by KC Trommer, regarding the controversy surrounding a member of the publishing world...

September 7, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: On Literary Sexual Abuse, Sock Puppets, and White Sage—A Story in Blog Posts

Report from the Field: On Literary Sexual Abuse, Sock Puppets, and White Sage—A Story in Blog Posts

This Report from the Field is authored by Annie Finch, and originally appeared on her personal blog, AnnieFinch.com, in three...

August 21, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Quadrants

Report from the Field: Quadrants

Late Summer, 2016   It’s been a long, cool Portland summer and goose bumps are, at this point, a familiar...

August 3, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: The Permission to Reveal

Report from the Field: The Permission to Reveal

This July 11 Report from the Field is a post by a Addie Tsai regarding their personal experiences concerning a...

July 11, 2018July 2, 2020
Report from the Field: Zero Tolerance, An Open Letter from Jewish Writers about U.S. Immigration Policy

Report from the Field: Zero Tolerance, An Open Letter from Jewish Writers about U.S. Immigration Policy

This Report from the Field has been authored by Richard Zimler and signed by members of the Jewish writing community,...

June 27, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Of Myopia, White Supremacy and the Personal Essay

Report from the Field: Of Myopia, White Supremacy and the Personal Essay

In 2017, I took my first creative nonfiction workshop with a reputed author, editor, and teacher of creative writing in...

June 4, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: The Fearful I: Confessional Modes of Address and Speaking the Self

Report from the Field: The Fearful I: Confessional Modes of Address and Speaking the Self

When I crested 12 and took the first tentative steps down authorship’s overgrown path, the trees and buzzing insects spoke...

May 30, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Justice

Report from the Field: Justice

This Report from the Field is a post authored by Jody Hobbs Hesler regarding her account of her personal experiences...

May 14, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Money, Writing, & Opportunity: A Manifesto

Report from the Field: Money, Writing, & Opportunity: A Manifesto

In creative fields where labor is undervalued, writers and artists are asked to work for “exposure” in lieu of compensation...

April 16, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Native Women Writers Take on the ‘Indian Du Jour’

Report from the Field: Native Women Writers Take on the ‘Indian Du Jour’

Indian Country and, in particular, the Native writing community, is grieving today because of the scandal (known among many Native...

March 29, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Behind the Scenes at AWP with members of The Disabled & Deaf Uprising

Report from the Field: Behind the Scenes at AWP with members of The Disabled & Deaf Uprising

This Report from the Field is a post by a collective of anonymous writers regarding the developing controversy concerning noted...

March 21, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Sexual Harassment in the Children’s Book Industry

Report from the Field: Sexual Harassment in the Children’s Book Industry

This Report from the Field is a republication of Anne Ursu’s essay originally published here at Medium.com in response to the...

February 19, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Holding Your Now-Defunct Publisher Accountable When They Refuse To Honor Your Contract or Return Your Emails: A Memoir

Report from the Field: Holding Your Now-Defunct Publisher Accountable When They Refuse To Honor Your Contract or Return Your Emails: A Memoir

This Report from the Field is the author’s account of events regarding the developing controversy regarding a member of the...

January 30, 2018November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Poets on Strike, Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Report from the Field: Poets on Strike, Irish Women Poets and the Canon

This Report from the Field includes a republication of Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon’s pledge in response to...

December 17, 2017November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Gender Inequality Within Literary Prize Culture

Report from the Field: Gender Inequality Within Literary Prize Culture

Prizes aren’t everything. But for literary writers in a world growing less literary, they just might be. Ivor Indyk states...

November 27, 2017November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: The Poet as Beginning Mother

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...

October 5, 2017November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Home is Where the Women Are

Report from the Field: Home is Where the Women Are

A few months ago, I spotted a video of my mother and her sisters on Facebook. The video was taken...

September 18, 2017November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Embodied Writing Can Be Your New Activism

Report from the Field: Embodied Writing Can Be Your New Activism

On Saturday, January 21, 2017, I discovered that my body is not made for protest marches. Since the election and...

September 12, 2017November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: “It’s okay, it’s art, keep going.”

Report from the Field: “It’s okay, it’s art, keep going.”

This Report from the Field is a republication of Kolleen Carney’s personal blog post at https://kolleencarney.com/2017/08/24/82317-pt-2/amp/ regarding the developing controversy...

September 7, 2017November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Just Dangerous Enough

Report from the Field: Just Dangerous Enough

It is the first month of school and even after fifteen years of this routine, September still feels like the...

August 21, 2017November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: A Catalog of Exchanges: When Men (Don’t) Read My Words

Report from the Field: A Catalog of Exchanges: When Men (Don’t) Read My Words

You are apparently famous, though I have never heard of you. You workshop my piece at a prestigious writing workshop...

August 10, 2017November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: Drunken Boat Is Now Anomaly

Report from the Field: Drunken Boat Is Now Anomaly

This Report from the Field is a republication of Erica Mena-Landry’s personal blog post regarding the developing controversy regarding literary...

June 21, 2017September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Nasty, Nastier, Nastiest

Report from the Field: Nasty, Nastier, Nastiest

I get called some form of nasty every day. It is part of my identity as a rigorous female teacher...

May 31, 2017September 10, 2019
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...

April 25, 2017September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Too Big To Fuck Up

Report from the Field: Too Big To Fuck Up

I’ve had straight cis men do fucked up things to me. I’ve been witness to straight cis men doing fucked...

April 16, 2017September 10, 2019
Reports from the Field: Good Intentions: What Being Disabled at #AWP17 Was Like

Reports from the Field: Good Intentions: What Being Disabled at #AWP17 Was Like

I’m sitting at the booth for the literary magazine where I work for free but with great privilege when a...

March 2, 2017September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: The Silence of a Siren

Report from the Field: The Silence of a Siren

At 8am I have students hunched over their copies of The Aeneid with questions from the night before, clarifications rising...

February 17, 2017September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: To Go to Sea: Making a Place in a Male Literary Landscape

Report from the Field: To Go to Sea: Making a Place in a Male Literary Landscape

The first real poet I got to know was my teacher for two weeks at the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference,...

December 14, 2016September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Speaking Into Silences

Report from the Field: Speaking Into Silences

I was afraid to write this essay. I have never written a personal essay. I write poetry, in which content...

December 11, 2016September 10, 2019
Report From the Field

Report From the Field

December 2, 2016November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: The Publishing Process Is Archaic

Report from the Field: The Publishing Process Is Archaic

I’m closing Five Quarterly. We’re a small, online lit mag that has existed by word-of-mouth and by support of our...

October 14, 2016September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: About the (Queer) Author

Report from the Field: About the (Queer) Author

A few weeks ago, a rejection email popped into my inbox. That’s not exactly unusual; dealing with a constant stream...

September 12, 2016September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: White Stockings: A Poetic Study of Mythical Freedom Fighters

Report from the Field: White Stockings: A Poetic Study of Mythical Freedom Fighters

Centuries pass, yet Russia continues to weave its myths. Traditional Russian folklore is simultaneously bleak yet enchantingly surreal—full of stories...

August 30, 2016September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: A Working-Class Academic on Loving Elena Ferrante

Report from the Field: A Working-Class Academic on Loving Elena Ferrante

Last September, during a sultry late-summer lunch hour in Manhattan, I had a street encounter that very nearly moved me...

August 16, 2016September 9, 2019
Report from the Field: Encounters with Misogynists or, the Lap Dances I Never Received

Report from the Field: Encounters with Misogynists or, the Lap Dances I Never Received

This isn’t a lesbian club, the bald-headed bouncer spat before tossing us onto the icy Montreal street. The details before...

August 15, 2016September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: This Voice of Mine

Report from the Field: This Voice of Mine

Eleven years ago I sat at a table in a writing studio in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, rented by a professor...

June 7, 2016September 10, 2019
¿Para Quién Escribes?

¿Para Quién Escribes?

The mediated Western world so disorients us that a conversation addressing our own eroded cognition is itself bound to be...

June 7, 2016September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: People Were Upset That People Were Upset

Report from the Field: People Were Upset That People Were Upset

“In the past, death was often a source of suffering.” “The poem is universal because it involves a birth and...

April 22, 2016September 9, 2019
Report from the Field: Struggling with Creative Nepotism

Report from the Field: Struggling with Creative Nepotism

I’m sitting with my friend Ronna Lebo at a cafe. We’re talking about Boni Joi, a close friend of Ronna’s...

April 8, 2016November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: My MFA Career as a Recovering Prestige Fiend

Report from the Field: My MFA Career as a Recovering Prestige Fiend

Nearly a decade ago, I made a critical career decision to divest my life from academic institutions that didn’t value...

March 16, 2016November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: STATEMENTS AGAINST SILENCE

Report from the Field: STATEMENTS AGAINST SILENCE

This March 6 Report from the Field is a post by a collective of anonymous writers and artists regarding the...

March 6, 2016September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Calling Out Actions Allows People to Grow

Report from the Field: Calling Out Actions Allows People to Grow

“Big girls don’t cry,” especially not aerospace engineers like myself. Despite the fact that I was in the middle of...

March 4, 2016September 9, 2019
Report from the Field: Aswang

Report from the Field: Aswang

Recently, I turned forty. By society’s standards, I’ve failed in many ways. I am not married. I have no children....

February 27, 2016September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Four Moments In the Life of a Brown Female Writer

Report from the Field: Four Moments In the Life of a Brown Female Writer

One: I’m at a competitive and well-respected writing conference in the west and have become friends with a talented black...

February 23, 2016September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Racial Invisibility and Erasure in the Writing Workshop

Report from the Field: Racial Invisibility and Erasure in the Writing Workshop

In a novel excerpt I turned into workshop, my narrator uses the word “chinky.” My narrator is a Korean American...

January 11, 2016September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Moving through the Webs

Report from the Field: Moving through the Webs

My ex-husband used to keep an unframed photo of me on his desk. The photo, bent against a brass lamp,...

December 8, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Gone from My Heart: Violence and Anger in the Poetry Workshop

Report from the Field: Gone from My Heart: Violence and Anger in the Poetry Workshop

It’s the first week of the poetry unit in my introductory creative writing class. “Raise your hand if you wrote...

December 1, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: A Problem with the Workshop Model

Report from the Field: A Problem with the Workshop Model

Among my earliest memories is being laughed at by my father and brother for allegedly trying to pee standing up,...

November 23, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Financial Confessions of a Feminist Organizer

Report from the Field: Financial Confessions of a Feminist Organizer

In July I went to a feminist icon costume party to celebrate the first birthday of Out of the Binders,...

November 9, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Let’s Shake the One

Report from the Field: Let’s Shake the One

We’ve recently wrapped our third annual e-chapbook contest and after an intense editorial and production process, are about to launch...

November 4, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Letter to C

Report from the Field: Letter to C

Dear C, I am thinking of quitting poetry to sing. Maybe my voice will be more welcome there than at...

September 28, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Language is Home.

Report from the Field: Language is Home.

My high school had a system in place to deal with recent immigrants. All students from abroad were moved a...

September 9, 2015November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: The Other Section

Report from the Field: The Other Section

I attempt to practice a feminism rooted essentially in intersectionality. As a woman who has had the privilege of studying...

September 1, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Poetry in Late Capitalism

Report from the Field: Poetry in Late Capitalism

When I first moved to San Francisco, I went to a Chinese restaurant on Kearny Street. The restaurant was very...

August 31, 2015November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: I Stood There Ironing…

Report from the Field: I Stood There Ironing…

I was twenty-three and living in a tiny, severely tilted, $150-a-month Greenwich Village studio when Tillie Olsen’s Silences was published....

August 31, 2015November 12, 2019
Report from the Field: But Do You Have to Work?

Report from the Field: But Do You Have to Work?

The question came at lunch with my department chair in the middle of discussions about the future of the department,...

July 28, 2015November 12, 2019
Report From The Field: The Defensive Male Writer

Report From The Field: The Defensive Male Writer

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

June 28, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: My Body Is Not Your Receptacle

Report from the Field: My Body Is Not Your Receptacle

  It was less than a month ago that B O D Y literary journal came under fire via social...

June 15, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: To Lift Off My Veil

Report from the Field: To Lift Off My Veil

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

June 13, 2015September 10, 2019
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....

April 26, 2015September 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

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

April 24, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: I Don’t Know How She Does It

Report from the Field: I Don’t Know How She Does It

I can’t remember the first time I heard the phrase in reference to myself: I don’t know how she does...

March 15, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field– What We Don’t Name: The Delicate Path of Literary Crimes

Report from the Field– What We Don’t Name: The Delicate Path of Literary Crimes

When I launched The Atlas Review a bit over two years ago, I felt certain that the best way to...

March 2, 2015September 10, 2019
Reports from the Field:  On a Clear Day: Notes on Identity

Reports from the Field: On a Clear Day: Notes on Identity

I.   1. In her 1994 essay, “On Not Being A Victim,” Mary Gaitskill writes:  “One reason I had sex...

February 3, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: “Legal Residents Only:” The Undocupoets Campaign

Report from the Field: “Legal Residents Only:” The Undocupoets Campaign

Various Undocupoets from throughout the nation recently have been working on a petition against the unjust discrimination imposed by first...

January 30, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: A Textbook Case of Diversity: How Educational Publishing Skims the Surface

Report from the Field: A Textbook Case of Diversity: How Educational Publishing Skims the Surface

Tokenism is a surface correction for a deeply rooted problem. We are book people in my family. Every January, we...

January 30, 2015September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Some Day You Will Ache Like I Ache–  What Sexualized Language Means to Me

Report from the Field: Some Day You Will Ache Like I Ache– What Sexualized Language Means to Me

Recently my grandmother writes on Facebook under a picture of my, at the time, fourteen-year-old sister: “sexy.” A few days...

December 9, 2014September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: Paintings I Won’t Paint

Report from the Field: Paintings I Won’t Paint

I have this idea for a series of paintings. Which is unusual for me because I don’t really paint. The...

December 2, 2014September 10, 2019
Report From the Field: White People Love Me: Dispatches From The Token

Report From the Field: White People Love Me: Dispatches From The Token

I get along with white people really well. Growing up, they brought peppermint bark down the cul-de-sac to my parents’...

November 17, 2014September 9, 2019
Report from the Field: On Grief

Report from the Field: On Grief

Because it’s afternoon. Because the sun is setting. Because I’m followed home at night and to work some mornings. Because...

October 29, 2014September 9, 2019
Report from the Field: Youth Poetry Slam

Report from the Field: Youth Poetry Slam

Every year, a poetry slam is held at Poets House in Manhattan. Boys and girls from high schools and middle...

October 15, 2014September 9, 2019
Report from the Field: Quid Pro Quo

Report from the Field: Quid Pro Quo

What I remember is red wine sloshing in hotel coffee mugs. What I remember is trying to scoot out of...

September 8, 2014September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: “Compassion in Po-Biz”

Report from the Field: “Compassion in Po-Biz”

Everyone knows the stereotype about poets. Our vocation has one of the highest rates of suicide {only after playwrights}. We...

September 4, 2014September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: “How to Sleep with a Professor”

Report from the Field: “How to Sleep with a Professor”

I was nineteen and he was thirty-something. I was a student and he was a professor, not my professor but...

June 25, 2014September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: “MFA Rape Culture”

Report from the Field: “MFA Rape Culture”

A prestigious MFA program in quite possibly the most diverse, liberal city in America, at a liberal university. A cohort...

June 23, 2014September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: “Letter to the Washington Post”

Report from the Field: “Letter to the Washington Post”

On June 10, the Washington Post published an article, “One Way to End Violence Against Women? Married Dads,” claiming that...

June 19, 2014September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: “Double X”

Report from the Field: “Double X”

I particularly respected two men in the literary field. They were both authors, good ones, but it is in their...

June 8, 2014September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: “Naming Is the First Step”

Report from the Field: “Naming Is the First Step”

Recently a piece has made its way around poetry circles via the relatively obscure web lit magazine, Claudius App. Written...

May 2, 2014September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: “THESE THINGS HAPPENED”

Report from the Field: “THESE THINGS HAPPENED”

When I first told my then-boyfriend that I had been raped more than once, he told me that many bad...

April 21, 2014September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: “NO ONE WANTS TO READ ABOUT THEM”

Report from the Field: “NO ONE WANTS TO READ ABOUT THEM”

When I was in my early 20s in my MFA program, I had the opportunity to have a consultation with...

April 21, 2014September 9, 2019
Report from the Field: “MISOGYNY ALERT”

Report from the Field: “MISOGYNY ALERT”

I continue to be troubled by what I witnessed at an off-site reading at AWP in Seattle, WA. At this...

April 12, 2014September 9, 2019
Introducing: Reports from the Field

Introducing: Reports from the Field

Once, when I was in my 20s, I sat at a restaurant after a poetry reading with a small group...

April 9, 2014September 9, 2019

VIDA Review Reviews

VIDA Reviews! First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story by Huda Al-Marashi

VIDA Reviews! First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story by Huda Al-Marashi

The year I turned twenty-nine was one of the best years of my life. In the space of six months,...

April 23, 2019September 6, 2019
VIDA Review Reviews! Mary Kovaleski Byrnes’ So Long the Sky

VIDA Review Reviews! Mary Kovaleski Byrnes’ So Long the Sky

Home—Pennsylvania and Poland—ancestry, immigrant aunts, and travel to several European cities form the basis of Mary Kovaleski Byrnes’ book So...

March 11, 2019September 6, 2019
VIDA Reviews! Ladies Lazarus by Piper Daniels

VIDA Reviews! Ladies Lazarus by Piper Daniels

A Poet’s Encounter Ladies Lazarus is a work of creative nonfiction that offers the experience of poetry to me. Language...

February 25, 2019September 6, 2019
VIDA Reviews! I Am Yours, by Reema Zaman

VIDA Reviews! I Am Yours, by Reema Zaman

I Am Mine   “We tend to think deaths and events are all that require grieving, but selves, choices, habits,...

February 22, 2019September 6, 2019
VIDA Reviews! Surge by Etel Adnan

VIDA Reviews! Surge by Etel Adnan

How does a poet’s work change as her perspectives shift decade after decade? A life containing a publication history as...

February 12, 2019September 6, 2019
VIDA Reviews! New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich

VIDA Reviews! New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich

Last month, Vulture, the arts and entertainment site of New York magazine released “A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century...

January 28, 2019September 9, 2019
Open the Gates: A Call For Inclusivity in Romance Reviewing

Open the Gates: A Call For Inclusivity in Romance Reviewing

When it comes to the book publishing industry, there are a lot of barriers to inclusivity and diversity. Editors and...

January 16, 2019September 9, 2019
VIDA Reviews! Inside Me an Island, by Lehua M. Taitano

VIDA Reviews! Inside Me an Island, by Lehua M. Taitano

“Who but a horizon so keenly feels how we are kept at each other’s distance?” asks writer and interdisciplinary artist...

December 20, 2018September 9, 2019
VIDA Reviews! Resistance and Hope, edited by Alice Wong

VIDA Reviews! Resistance and Hope, edited by Alice Wong

After the polls closed for the 2016 presidential election, my husband and I strapped our soon-to-be-one-year-old daughter into her high...

December 11, 2018September 9, 2019
VIDA Reviews! Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay

VIDA Reviews! Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay

Content note: this piece discusses the trauma and minimization of sexual misconduct In the introduction of Not That Bad, Roxane...

November 5, 2018September 9, 2019
VIDA Reviews! feeld notes: feeld, by Jos Charles

VIDA Reviews! feeld notes: feeld, by Jos Charles

Jos Charles, there’s room in “thees wite skirtes” for thee and me, so let’s write these rites alchemically. I’m feeld-ing...

October 26, 2018September 9, 2019
VIDA Reviews! This Will Be My Undoing, by Morgan Jerkins

VIDA Reviews! This Will Be My Undoing, by Morgan Jerkins

It’s no accident the cover of Morgan Jerkins book has her looking up with eyes closed as though she’s imagining...

August 12, 2018September 9, 2019
VIDA Reviews! In Search of Pure Lust & Conversation with Author Lise Weil

VIDA Reviews! In Search of Pure Lust & Conversation with Author Lise Weil

“A lesbian is a memoir.”  – Lou Robinson “Lesbian-feminism invites us to be present, to follow the crumbs.”  – Julie...

July 27, 2018September 9, 2019
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...

July 20, 2018September 9, 2019
VIDA Reviews! Interview with Chelene Knight on Dear Current Occupant

VIDA Reviews! Interview with Chelene Knight on Dear Current Occupant

Dear Current Occupant is non-linear memoir that maps Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in the 80s and 90s.  Through writing letters to...

July 13, 2018September 9, 2019
VIDA Reviews! Monster Portraits by Sofia Samatar & Del Samatar — Inclusion as Key to Renewal

VIDA Reviews! Monster Portraits by Sofia Samatar & Del Samatar — Inclusion as Key to Renewal

For as long as there has been storytelling, there have been monsters. In Egypt it was Anubis and Bastet. In...

June 7, 2018September 10, 2019
VIDA Reviews! One Above One Below: Positions & Lamentations by Gala Mukomolova

VIDA Reviews! One Above One Below: Positions & Lamentations by Gala Mukomolova

“And I’m the one with no soul, one above and one below” laments Courtney Love, in her 1994, song “Violet.”...

May 25, 2018September 10, 2019
VIDA Reviews! Women in Sound Zines

VIDA Reviews! Women in Sound Zines

“Why is the largest audio forum on the internet called Gear Slutz? Why is this guitar pedal called Screaming Whore?...

May 17, 2018September 10, 2019
VIDA Reviews! Glimmerglass Girl by Holly Lyn Walrath

VIDA Reviews! Glimmerglass Girl by Holly Lyn Walrath

From the opening lines, Glimmerglass Girl by Holly Lyn Walrath propelled me into an intersection between ethereal loftiness, humorous speculation,...

May 1, 2018September 10, 2019
VIDA Reviews! A Book of Untruths by Miranda Doyle

VIDA Reviews! A Book of Untruths by Miranda Doyle

Lie Like Them: Writing the Unbelievable Parent Who is telling the truth? I wrote this note for myself in the...

April 12, 2018September 10, 2019
VIDA Reviews! Make Yourself Happy, by Eleni Sikelianos

VIDA Reviews! Make Yourself Happy, by Eleni Sikelianos

A Greater Love: A review of Eleni Sikelianos’s Make Yourself Happy Make Yourself Happy is the last in a long...

April 2, 2018September 10, 2019
VIDA Reviews! Kingdom of Women by Rosalie Morales Kearns

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...

February 22, 2018September 10, 2019
VIDA Reviews! There Is a Case That I Am, by torrin a. greathouse

VIDA Reviews! There Is a Case That I Am, by torrin a. greathouse

torrin a. greathouse’s There Is a Case That I Am (2017, Damaged Goods Press) is concerned with the mathematics of...

February 14, 2018September 10, 2019

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On Becoming Prey: A Conversation With Jeanann Verlee & Genevieve Pfeiffer

On Becoming Prey: A Conversation With Jeanann Verlee & Genevieve Pfeiffer

Genevieve Pfeiffer: You write about violence, and pain. One poem, in particular, “A Good Life” stayed with me so that...

May 10, 2019September 10, 2019
‘(what) is a trauma response’: #MeToo, Fake News, and Transreal Ecopoetics

‘(what) is a trauma response’: #MeToo, Fake News, and Transreal Ecopoetics

  I.   It’s late summer.   Wet asphalt simmers in still heat, glazed neon by barlights. Trains screech to...

April 16, 2019September 10, 2019
Where Is She? Two Contemporary Poets on Erasure, Gendered Violence, & Poetry

Where Is She? Two Contemporary Poets on Erasure, Gendered Violence, & Poetry

Sarah Clark: She May Be a Saint utilizes Sylvia Plath’s work as source material, and All the Twists of the Tongue...

March 18, 2019September 10, 2019
When The Stars Fell On Starlee… And Me

When The Stars Fell On Starlee… And Me

If I were asked to make a list of the podcasts I listen to over and over again, almost all...

March 5, 2019September 10, 2019
You Can Find Familiarity in Any Space You Go: A Conversation With Carlina Duan

You Can Find Familiarity in Any Space You Go: A Conversation With Carlina Duan

Nearing the one year birthday of I Wore My Blackest Hair, I was drawn to revisiting this collection of poems....

February 11, 2019September 10, 2019
Living in Liminality: Working with the Wounds of Trauma through Altered States & Poison Medicine 

Living in Liminality: Working with the Wounds of Trauma through Altered States & Poison Medicine 

Adapted from a keynote given at the 2018 Transformative Language Arts Network Power of Words Conference +++ What is the...

February 4, 2019September 10, 2019
Made of Warring Parts: An Interview with Linette Reeman & torrin a. greathouse

Made of Warring Parts: An Interview with Linette Reeman & torrin a. greathouse

Sarah Clark: Both of your chapbooks are so viscerally about the body. Can you tell me how you conceptualize of...

January 25, 2019September 10, 2019
VIDA Not So Feckless Roundtable

VIDA Not So Feckless Roundtable

Sarah Fawn: How did this the idea for this anthology come about? What prompted your role and vision as an...

January 14, 2019September 10, 2019
On Labor’s Value

On Labor’s Value

In the twilight stillness, I watch my son while he sleeps.  My partner and I share the responsibilities of feeding...

January 10, 2019September 10, 2019
Discussing Resistance and Hope: Mini-Interviews with Cyree Jarelle Johnson & Naomi Ortiz

Discussing Resistance and Hope: Mini-Interviews with Cyree Jarelle Johnson & Naomi Ortiz

“I felt scared and powerless the evening of Election Day 2016. The term ‘resistance’ became popular and commonplace in the...

January 4, 2019September 10, 2019
On Bad Behavior: An Interview with Therese Anne Fowler

On Bad Behavior: An Interview with Therese Anne Fowler

On the November 25th cover of The New York Times Magazine, Nancy Pelosi poses in a crisp coral pantsuit and...

December 27, 2018September 10, 2019
What Happens When You Switch a Character’s Gender?

What Happens When You Switch a Character’s Gender?

Once I wrote a story about a woman who grows a baby in a pot. Thumbelina-style. The woman throws out...

December 17, 2018September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: Multiple Voices

Body of a Poem: Multiple Voices

Writing about identity is a pressure for me as a person of color, a queer person, and a queer person...

December 7, 2018September 10, 2019
Poetry As Offering: To Practice In Poetry & Live In The Body-Mind

Poetry As Offering: To Practice In Poetry & Live In The Body-Mind

Chicago is my hometown, I grew up here as a poor brown queer awkward butch girl, and snuck into open...

November 13, 2018September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: You Cannot Make Home In A Lie

Body of a Poem: You Cannot Make Home In A Lie

Presence teaches me, through all complexity—this mass and mess of body animate with breath—that gender is irreducible. i can remember...

November 9, 2018September 10, 2019
Violences in Language

Violences in Language

Recalling the days after Bush’s re-election, Toni Morrison wrote an article for The Nation outlining the strategies malicious forces use...

October 30, 2018September 10, 2019
Lessons In Refusing Description

Lessons In Refusing Description

N’dee, queer, nonbinary. There is a certain level of difficulty I experience in trying to remember a time when I...

October 4, 2018September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: My Gender Is a Pair of Safety Scissors

Body of a Poem: My Gender Is a Pair of Safety Scissors

The first time I knew I had a body was when my best friend Veronica looked at me and screamed....

September 14, 2018September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: Clown

Body of a Poem: Clown

The story of my father lives in my body as precise as clockwork. The story of my father during summer...

September 8, 2018September 10, 2019
Taking Up Space

Taking Up Space

Taking Up Space is an excerpt from Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir It wasn’t difficult to be silent. My undergraduate...

September 3, 2018September 10, 2019
I, Afterwards

I, Afterwards

nala-e-bebaak / نالۂ_بیباک (noun, urdu): an audacious sorrow The first signs of verbal violence emerged from a constant comparison between his own...

August 31, 2018September 10, 2019
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...

August 28, 2018September 10, 2019
Like:  Intimacy in Late Stage Capitalism

Like: Intimacy in Late Stage Capitalism

Once, you found a skin tag on the part of your flesh that is not exactly a sex organ, but...

August 9, 2018September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: If language makes us visible

Body of a Poem: If language makes us visible

“I swear, you will wake— & mistake these walls for skin.” —from: Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong, by Ocean Vuong...

August 6, 2018September 10, 2019
News Flash: There’s No Central Office Called #MeToo

News Flash: There’s No Central Office Called #MeToo

1 I’d already had a bad day when I read Daphne Merkin’s now-infamous Op-Ed in The New York Times, “Publicly,...

August 1, 2018September 10, 2019
Unsympathetic Me: Medea as Writer

Unsympathetic Me: Medea as Writer

I am an unsympathetic character. And I take myself way too seriously. I’m too earnest. To top it all off,...

July 22, 2018September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: From Zines to Novels, Genderqueer on the Page

Body of a Poem: From Zines to Novels, Genderqueer on the Page

I began writing as a zinester sixteen years ago, just days after I ran away from my abusive childhood home....

July 17, 2018September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem—Passing: A Hybrid Form

Body of a Poem—Passing: A Hybrid Form

Pass, v. I. To excel or surpass 1. trans. a. To exceed in excellence or worthiness; to surpass in some...

July 6, 2018September 10, 2019
Karaoke with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un

Karaoke with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un

I bypass the self-serve cereal cart on the patio, the subterranean foam party pulsing with sweaty go-go dancers, the dorm...

July 3, 2018September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: Neither Here nor There, Asexual and Agender in the Literary World

Body of a Poem: Neither Here nor There, Asexual and Agender in the Literary World

It hurts when even my sisters look at me in the street with cold and silent eyes. I am defined...

June 29, 2018September 10, 2019
VIDA Response to Boston Review’s Statement on Junot Díaz

VIDA Response to Boston Review’s Statement on Junot Díaz

  June 7, 2018   VIDA Response to Boston Review’s Statement on Junot Díaz   Addendum (6/8/18): This letter is to...

June 7, 2018September 10, 2019
Nepantla’s Queer Women of Color Odes to Literary Ancestors

Nepantla’s Queer Women of Color Odes to Literary Ancestors

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

May 22, 2018September 10, 2019
Spam Stigma: An Open Letter to White People

Spam Stigma: An Open Letter to White People

Dear bougie white people of America— I am a SPAM®-Eater—and I am not ashamed. Yes, you read that right. I...

May 7, 2018September 10, 2019
Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics

Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics

Gwendolyn Brooks had already become the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry when fellow poet...

April 27, 2018September 10, 2019
On Conclusion and Findings: A Conversation Between Yanyi and Catalina Ouyang

On Conclusion and Findings: A Conversation Between Yanyi and Catalina Ouyang

Catalina Ouyang‘s ongoing project Conclusion and Findings (working title) is a participatory event that takes various material forms. The artist...

April 23, 2018September 10, 2019
Falling to Fly: Letting the Black Female Within Guide as White Supremacy Thrives

Falling to Fly: Letting the Black Female Within Guide as White Supremacy Thrives

In the era before cesarean sections became the norm in my Florida Panhandle hometown, my closest kin learned an outsized,...

April 9, 2018September 10, 2019
Dung-Aw: Conveying the Poetry of Grief

Dung-Aw: Conveying the Poetry of Grief

For writers with the gift of more than one language, what kinds of sounds are we able to make when...

April 3, 2018September 10, 2019
Conformity’s Labor & Tips to Make Poetry Events More Accessible to People who are D/deaf or Hard of Hearing

Conformity’s Labor & Tips to Make Poetry Events More Accessible to People who are D/deaf or Hard of Hearing

When I was leading anti-bias retreats at the University of Richmond, I also founded a campus-wide book discussion series focused...

March 25, 2018September 10, 2019
Literacy Breaking the Cage

Literacy Breaking the Cage

The day my mother decided to move was not easy. I was sitting on the couch in my overalls studying...

March 19, 2018September 10, 2019
Aut Lit By Neurotypicals; Or, Another Case Of “Where Are The Women?”

Aut Lit By Neurotypicals; Or, Another Case Of “Where Are The Women?”

Does the trend piece make the trend? When it comes to sub-genres such as women’s literature or lesbian and gay...

March 11, 2018September 10, 2019
An Ending

An Ending

In 2014, I started my first screenplay out of anger. The Michigan Daily, my campus’ newspaper, had released a story...

March 1, 2018September 10, 2019
The White Fists of Old Letters: On Being Plathian

The White Fists of Old Letters: On Being Plathian

I. October 5, 2017 It’s hard to say when my work was first called Plathian. It certainly could have been...

January 25, 2018September 10, 2019
Notes on Femme and Fiction

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...

January 21, 2018September 10, 2019
On Playing the Nice Woman

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...

January 19, 2018September 10, 2019
Interview with Editors of Nasty Women Poets

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...

January 15, 2018September 10, 2019
To Insist on the Depth and Complexity of Our Lives

To Insist on the Depth and Complexity of Our Lives

In a book I found years ago, Adrienne Rich is quoted as saying, “This is the work I see for...

January 11, 2018September 10, 2019
Open-Wide Translation: Centering Intersectional Feminist, Accessible Translating Across Platforms

Open-Wide Translation: Centering Intersectional Feminist, Accessible Translating Across Platforms

The following is an adaptation of the presentation “Open-Wide Translation: Centering Intersectional Feminist, Accessible Translating Across Platforms,” given at the...

January 7, 2018September 10, 2019
Why I Can’t Have Coffee with You: Saying No to the Patriarchy

Why I Can’t Have Coffee with You: Saying No to the Patriarchy

Faculty Meeting This summer at a faculty meeting, I joked with a colleague. I’ve learned how to do this as...

December 7, 2017September 10, 2019
Hobbling the Leader

Hobbling the Leader

It’s rare when the disabled writer is invited to teach in a workshop. According to the VIDA Count, it’s rare...

November 6, 2017September 10, 2019
Encountering Diane Wakoski: The Making of Emerald Ice

Encountering Diane Wakoski: The Making of Emerald Ice

A docufantasy about the American poet Diane Wakoski It was 2014, I had just been admitted to Northwestern University for...

October 25, 2017September 10, 2019
Happy Little Failures (On Women Who Refuse to be Humbled)

Happy Little Failures (On Women Who Refuse to be Humbled)

Alice Walker has this essay: “Refusing to Be Humbled By Second Place in a Contest You Did Not Design.” In...

October 16, 2017September 10, 2019
A Dossier of Red Flags: Literary Encounters with (White, Straight, Cis) Men

A Dossier of Red Flags: Literary Encounters with (White, Straight, Cis) Men

I was eleven years old the first time I submitted my writing for literary consideration: a state-wide short fiction contest...

October 10, 2017September 10, 2019
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,...

September 29, 2017September 10, 2019
On Writing As Liberation

On Writing As Liberation

I. What is the word ‘expression?’ An utterance, a declaration, a representation. Of feeling, of thought, of character. Becoming a...

September 4, 2017September 10, 2019
Guarding the Self: Some Notes from the Commute

Guarding the Self: Some Notes from the Commute

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

August 31, 2017September 10, 2019
Mary Shelley Lives Again

Mary Shelley Lives Again

Mary Shelley is such a well-known cultural figure, it’s easy to forget she was ever a real person. Her best-known...

August 29, 2017September 10, 2019
Many Englishes: On Editing and Power

Many Englishes: On Editing and Power

“Can I say this?” I would ask my American partner every time (everytime) I doubted the use of a preposition...

July 30, 2017September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: Genrequeer and Genderqueer in Alabama

Body of a Poem: Genrequeer and Genderqueer in Alabama

Most of the jokes I hear about Alabama from my Northern liberal friends have nothing to do with the gorgeous,...

July 27, 2017September 10, 2019
Meet the Charrettes

Meet the Charrettes

Some years ago, a poet friend who had moved away was back in Cambridge for a visit and invited a...

July 16, 2017September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: The Public Won’t Let Me Be Personal

Body of a Poem: The Public Won’t Let Me Be Personal

Been wanting to get a haircut. Maybe clip my nails. Perhaps give away a toe or two. A hand, then...

July 10, 2017September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: AN ESSAY ABOUT BEING A NON MALE NON FEMALE PERSON IN THE LITERARY WORLD WRITTEN IN THE FORM OF A DREAM

Body of a Poem: AN ESSAY ABOUT BEING A NON MALE NON FEMALE PERSON IN THE LITERARY WORLD WRITTEN IN THE FORM OF A DREAM

You are on a beach. The beach is beautiful, with bright orange sand and an olive green ocean lapping against...

July 6, 2017September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: Transition as Act of Consent//Writing as Act of Consent//Ghosts as Act of Consent

Body of a Poem: Transition as Act of Consent//Writing as Act of Consent//Ghosts as Act of Consent

I. When I began thinking about hormonal transition—long after I had articulated a gender of in-betweenness to myself—it was in...

June 29, 2017September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: A Collection of Unfinished Statements

Body of a Poem: A Collection of Unfinished Statements

I felt sexy for the first time in a long time when I first wore a binder, like my body...

June 18, 2017September 10, 2019
The Sword

The Sword

Vera Black walks the line as she empties her email, but in a death march kind of way. She finds...

June 8, 2017September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: La Loca

Body of a Poem: La Loca

I remember it like it was today because it was yesterday, maybe this week, this month, or I’m not sure....

June 5, 2017September 10, 2019
Body of a Poem: editorial discretion

Body of a Poem: editorial discretion

What it doesn’t feel like: A constant, inherent, unerring wrongness—marrow-deep and strangling like mis-delivered chromosomes tied around my neck. A...

May 30, 2017September 10, 2019
Survived or Remained Alive?: An Imagined Interview with Babushka Vera

Survived or Remained Alive?: An Imagined Interview with Babushka Vera

Julia: Is it alright that I’m writing about you? Vera: Well, I suppose so. I just do not understand why...

May 22, 2017September 10, 2019
Failing at Subjects: The Poetics of the Living Idea

Failing at Subjects: The Poetics of the Living Idea

I am not not an academic; and I am not not a failure. These double negatives vibrate for me, which...

May 15, 2017September 10, 2019
The Dictator in My Notebook: On Censorship and the Risks of Writing

The Dictator in My Notebook: On Censorship and the Risks of Writing

My mother used to warn me, “Never write anything down you wouldn’t want someone else to read. Not in a...

April 30, 2017September 10, 2019
Compassionate Curating: On the (Literal) Cost of a Seat at the Table

Compassionate Curating: On the (Literal) Cost of a Seat at the Table

Let’s begin with the obvious, the unspoken: making books costs money. More to the point, making books costs someone’s money....

April 20, 2017September 10, 2019
Spotlight On! Black Napkin Press

Spotlight On! Black Napkin Press

  Black Napkin Press is “committed to disrupting the heteronormative white-cis-male-centric publishing industry by publishing and promoting the work of...

April 11, 2017September 10, 2019
Where We Go From Here: The Moon Does Not Fight

Where We Go From Here: The Moon Does Not Fight

Tonight, the moon comes the closest to the earth that it’s been in almost 70 years. Like a silver ghost...

April 2, 2017September 10, 2019
Where We Go From Here: Dear Students & Dear Trump

Where We Go From Here: Dear Students & Dear Trump

Dear Students, Good morning, class. Welcome to a new year, a new semester, and to my Race, Nation, and Borders...

March 27, 2017September 10, 2019
Intersectionality and Activism in the Literary Landscape Podcast and Panelist Discussion

Intersectionality and Activism in the Literary Landscape Podcast and Panelist Discussion

On Monday, June 6, 2016 VIDA presented Intersectionality and Activism in the Literary Landscape at Housing Works. The conversation featured...

March 22, 2017September 10, 2019
Compassionate Curating: Your Experience Is Valid

Compassionate Curating: Your Experience Is Valid

To put it simply, being an editor is difficult—and especially so when you are dealing with work that is crucial,...

March 19, 2017September 10, 2019
Where We Go From Here: On “Political” Poetry and Marginalization

Where We Go From Here: On “Political” Poetry and Marginalization

“But one voice is not enough, nor two, although this is where dialogue begins.” — Cherrie Moraga   THE PROBLEM Something occurred...

March 14, 2017September 9, 2019
Compassionate Curating: Editing Halal If You Hear Me

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...

March 9, 2017September 10, 2019
Where We Go From Here: Writers Who Remember Freedom

Where We Go From Here: Writers Who Remember Freedom

You say you are my ally, stand up! Brush yourself off. There is no time for tears, for self-pitying platitudes....

March 5, 2017September 10, 2019
Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces

Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces

I will always remember this past summer as one riddled with Black death. I was living in isolation at the...

March 4, 2017November 12, 2019
Where Do We Go From Here? Against Hegemony, Toward Integrity: The Dissident Artist’s Struggle

Where Do We Go From Here? Against Hegemony, Toward Integrity: The Dissident Artist’s Struggle

Artists have declared their dissent from Trump. #WritersResist, #ArtAfterTrump, and #J20ArtStrike are a sample of many anti-Trump events organized by...

January 29, 2017November 12, 2019
Writing as a Mother Worker: A Socratic Inquiry

Writing as a Mother Worker: A Socratic Inquiry

Things we know: Lorrie Moore is a writer of humorous fiction, and many would call her prolific and successful. Lorrie...

October 6, 2016November 12, 2019
VIDA Editor Roundtable

VIDA Editor Roundtable

Sarah Fawn: Hi everyone, Sarah Fawn Montgomery here. Thank you all for (virtually) sitting down to talk about our editing...

August 17, 2016November 12, 2019

Building Community: On the Power of Women Mentors

At 17 years old, I kept what I imagined was a riveting journal of high school life. It was rife...

August 8, 2016November 12, 2019
Jenn Monroe in Conversation with E. Kristin Anderson!

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,...

July 7, 2016November 12, 2019
The Invisible Latina Intellectual

The Invisible Latina Intellectual

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

July 6, 2016November 12, 2019
Notes Toward a New Language: On Women Poets and Nourishment

Notes Toward a New Language: On Women Poets and Nourishment

In 2010 I began to construct an anthology of poetry written by women who had and/or continue to struggle with...

June 22, 2016November 12, 2019
From the Margins: Women’s Writing and Unpaid Labor

From the Margins: Women’s Writing and Unpaid Labor

We’ve been talking about women’s unpaid labor at least since the seventies, focusing the most attention on the domestic realm....

June 7, 2016November 12, 2019
On Lack of Self-Confidence: Women’s Presence at Art Academies in Poland

On Lack of Self-Confidence: Women’s Presence at Art Academies in Poland

The pretext to discuss women’s self-confidence is the study Little Chance to Advance? – a report from an inquiry into the...

June 5, 2016November 12, 2019
The Kimchi Poetry Machine Manifesta

The Kimchi Poetry Machine Manifesta

I. The Kimchi Poetry Machine is a different kind of jar. II. Instead of kimchi, there are small paper pieces...

May 31, 2016November 12, 2019
The Female Body at the Front of the Room

The Female Body at the Front of the Room

I found myself at the front of a college classroom for the first time in 2005. I’d just begun my...

May 20, 2016November 12, 2019
HELP VIDA CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR *ALL* WOMEN IN LITERARY ARTS!

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...

May 15, 2016November 12, 2019
Women Writing Books About Film

Women Writing Books About Film

Don’t worry. You will make it through this. Stay calm. If you are reading this, you are here.   You...

April 22, 2016November 12, 2019
A. A. in Conversation with Erin Elizabeth Smith and Fox Frazier-Foley!

A. A. in Conversation with Erin Elizabeth Smith and Fox Frazier-Foley!

A. A.: What inspired you to organize Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity? Can you talk a...

April 19, 2016November 12, 2019
Who’s Coming for You?

Who’s Coming for You?

Sarai Walker’s novel Dietland (2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) has an unusual way of merging the violent with the mundane. Along...

March 14, 2016November 12, 2019
Other Writers’ Mothers: Some Reflections on Representing Family

Other Writers’ Mothers: Some Reflections on Representing Family

I wish I could get my mother to understand the poetic logic of my storytelling -Ruth Behar That wasn’t nice -Ruth Behar’s...

March 14, 2016November 12, 2019
Fighting Against Ghosthood

Fighting Against Ghosthood

“I met History once,” the St. Lucian writer Derek Walcott said in his sprawling poem “Schooner Flight,” “but he ain’t...

March 10, 2016November 12, 2019
Amrita Pritam: Sexual Politics and Publishing in Mid-20th Century India

Amrita Pritam: Sexual Politics and Publishing in Mid-20th Century India

That was our tryst, yours and mine. We slept on a bed of stones, and our eyes, lips and finger...

February 13, 2016November 12, 2019
La invitación del lobo

La invitación del lobo

It has to be from here, forgotten but unshaken, among comrades of silence deep into Welfare Island my farewell to...

February 9, 2016November 12, 2019
On Parsing

On Parsing

A few months ago, Claire Vaye Watkins’ courageous piece, On Pandering was published on the web site for the literary...

February 6, 2016November 12, 2019
Dangerous Art: Thoughts on Danticat’s Immigrant Artist and the Creation Myth

Dangerous Art: Thoughts on Danticat’s Immigrant Artist and the Creation Myth

My birth story is a war story. And for years, I thought birth and war were related. I first heard...

February 4, 2016November 12, 2019
List of Women-Run Presses

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...

January 19, 2016November 12, 2019
On Fear, Fearlessness, and Intergenerational Trauma

On Fear, Fearlessness, and Intergenerational Trauma

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we...

January 11, 2016November 12, 2019
“I’m nothing, if not”: An Anecdote of a Jar

“I’m nothing, if not”: An Anecdote of a Jar

To discuss my own entry into writing and publishing, I must admit a contrary relationship to publication, one probably not...

January 10, 2016November 12, 2019
The Audacity to Dream: On Asian Women, Feminism, and My Grandmother

The Audacity to Dream: On Asian Women, Feminism, and My Grandmother

In 1964, ahead of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, my maternal grandmother came to the United States. I...

December 8, 2015November 12, 2019
TANGENTIAL DIVAGATION: Notes of an Immigrant Daughter

TANGENTIAL DIVAGATION: Notes of an Immigrant Daughter

“Find a way to keep alive and write. There is nothing else to say.” — James Baldwin, “The Art of...

November 30, 2015November 12, 2019
The Unbearable (White) Maleness of US Poetry: And How We Can Enable a Structural Response to Literary Yellowface and Gender Inequity in Publishing

The Unbearable (White) Maleness of US Poetry: And How We Can Enable a Structural Response to Literary Yellowface and Gender Inequity in Publishing

On Labor Day, news broke widely that White writer Michael Derrick Hudson’s poem “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers,...

September 21, 2015November 12, 2019
Self Censored: When Writing is Not Right

Self Censored: When Writing is Not Right

I stopped jumping in and out of trouble. Once, it was a moving car, my father pissed; the walk home...

August 23, 2015November 12, 2019
ROUNDTABLE: POLICING THE OTHER IN THE LITERARY WORLD

ROUNDTABLE: POLICING THE OTHER IN THE LITERARY WORLD

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

August 13, 2015November 12, 2019
Submission as Social Action

Submission as Social Action

Once when I was in my early 20s, the tires on my car had gone bald, and my mother offered...

August 3, 2015November 12, 2019
Finding Home Through Literature: A Study of Filipino Fiction

Finding Home Through Literature: A Study of Filipino Fiction

All my life, I felt ashamed because I was born in America. Growing up in Los Angeles, CA, in the...

July 29, 2015November 12, 2019
ROUNDTABLE: POLICING THE OTHER IN THE LITERARY WORLD

ROUNDTABLE: POLICING THE OTHER IN THE LITERARY WORLD

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

July 17, 2015November 12, 2019
Clear Media Bias on the Vote: The Oxford Professor of Poetry 2015

Clear Media Bias on the Vote: The Oxford Professor of Poetry 2015

We can all rest easy now as poetry itself continues to rest firmly in the hands of a male poet...

July 7, 2015November 12, 2019
Poetry, Community, and Reading the Body

Poetry, Community, and Reading the Body

Poetry can be a gateway to empathy, a space of shared vulnerability. It can help audiences navigate the difficult and...

July 6, 2015November 12, 2019
Karen Yamashita’s Jubilant Fiascos

Karen Yamashita’s Jubilant Fiascos

It’s hard to be brilliant at more than one thing.  Malcolm Gladwell famously claimed that it takes ten thousand hours...

June 30, 2015November 12, 2019
The Intensity of The Reader: Reading as a Guest / a Thief in the Classroom / in the Wreckage

The Intensity of The Reader: Reading as a Guest / a Thief in the Classroom / in the Wreckage

The Intensity of The Reader: Reading as a Guest / a Thief in the Classroom / in the Wreckage  ...

June 29, 2015September 10, 2019
ROUNDTABLE: POLICING THE OTHER IN THE LITERARY WORLD

ROUNDTABLE: POLICING THE OTHER IN THE LITERARY WORLD

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

June 22, 2015September 10, 2019
Rolling Stone and the Backlash Against Advocacy Journalism

Rolling Stone and the Backlash Against Advocacy Journalism

It’s the tenor of the media punching show that got to me. I’m saddened that a story about sexual assault...

June 4, 2015September 10, 2019
Language of the Border

Language of the Border

I. Growing up young, Filipina, and undocumented in Southern California, I naturally had a monstrous appetite for the various news...

May 26, 2015September 10, 2019
Spotlight On! Wordgathering

Spotlight On! Wordgathering

To spotlight this featured journal is to recognize the power within small and intentional writing workshops. It is to celebrate...

May 9, 2015September 10, 2019
The Count in the Ivory Tower: Gender Parity in MFA Programs

The Count in the Ivory Tower: Gender Parity in MFA Programs

A graduate PhD student and a tenured professor walk into a coffee shop—sounds like the beginning of a hackneyed joke....

May 6, 2015September 10, 2019
VIDA @ AWP 2015 in Minneapolis!

VIDA @ AWP 2015 in Minneapolis!

JOIN US FOR THE VIDA AWARDS The 2015 VIDA Awards !! Thursday, April 9th at 7:30pm Skyway Theater, 711 Hennepin...

April 9, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Kaela Bernhardt

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Kaela Bernhardt

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

April 1, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Megan Davis

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Megan Davis

Tell us a bit about yourself. I counted from Baltimore, Maryland—my quirky home city, which, according to the bus stop...

March 31, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Emily Vizzo

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Emily Vizzo

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

March 31, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Kate Partridge

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Kate Partridge

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

March 20, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Corey Campbell

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Corey Campbell

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

March 20, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Chrissy Widmayer

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Chrissy Widmayer

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

March 19, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Sarah Fawn Montgomery

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

March 19, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Rachel Lake

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Rachel Lake

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

March 19, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Sophia Chew

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Sophia Chew

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

March 18, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Lucia LoTempio

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Lucia LoTempio

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

March 18, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Marielle Prince

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Marielle Prince

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

March 18, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Sara Iacovelli

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Sara Iacovelli

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

March 18, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Jessica Fokken

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Jessica Fokken

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

March 18, 2015September 10, 2019
Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Robin McCarthy

Who Does the Math? Introducing VIDA Counter Robin McCarthy

The people who count for VIDA count because they love literature. It would probably be an understatement to suggest they...

March 18, 2015September 10, 2019
WHY ARE PEOPLE SO INVESTED IN KENNETH GOLDSMITH? OR, IS COLONIALIST POETRY EASY?

WHY ARE PEOPLE SO INVESTED IN KENNETH GOLDSMITH? OR, IS COLONIALIST POETRY EASY?

Kenneth Goldsmith reading “The Body of Michael Brown” (screenshot via @soulellis/Twitter) “Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to...

March 18, 2015September 10, 2019
The House With Feet: The Dire Importance of Ruth Stone’s Bequest

The House With Feet: The Dire Importance of Ruth Stone’s Bequest

“Who are the women who brought my great-grandmother tea and straightened her bed? As anemone in midsummer, the air cannot...

March 17, 2015September 10, 2019
VIDA: Fund the Count

VIDA: Fund the Count

VIDA was founded to cut through the bull. People had this intuitive sense that the literary culture was unbalanced, that...

March 14, 2015September 10, 2019
VIDA VIP Cocktail Reception

VIDA VIP Cocktail Reception

Join us for an intimate VIP cocktail reception at AWP 2015 in support of VIDA. Honorees in attendance will include...

March 12, 2015September 10, 2019
VIDA Roundtable on Misogynist Content and Editorial Responsibility

VIDA Roundtable on Misogynist Content and Editorial Responsibility

Recently, following the publication of a troubling poem about violence against women, a social media backlash began, along with a...

February 1, 2015October 9, 2020
Moms on the Market

Moms on the Market

Dear Tenured Mom, I’m currently on the academic job market and pregnant. While the pregnancy itself is exciting and great...

January 24, 2015September 10, 2019
Kundiman 10 Years Later: Reflections on Writing Faculty, Workshops, and Telling Our Collective Truths

Kundiman 10 Years Later: Reflections on Writing Faculty, Workshops, and Telling Our Collective Truths

Kundiman 10 Years Later: Reflections on Writing Faculty, Workshops, and Telling Our Collective Truths A conversation between April Naoko Heck,...

December 2, 2014September 10, 2019
Against Our Own Best Time: Competition Among Writers in the Margins

Against Our Own Best Time: Competition Among Writers in the Margins

In the small town where I grew up, I was strange and lonely. Books were my solution. The page was...

November 18, 2014September 9, 2019
Report From the Field: White People Love Me: Dispatches From The Token

Report From the Field: White People Love Me: Dispatches From The Token

I get along with white people really well. Growing up, they brought peppermint bark down the cul-de-sac to my parents’...

November 17, 2014September 9, 2019
Report from the Field: On Grief

Report from the Field: On Grief

Because it’s afternoon. Because the sun is setting. Because I’m followed home at night and to work some mornings. Because...

October 29, 2014September 9, 2019
Report from the Field: Youth Poetry Slam

Report from the Field: Youth Poetry Slam

Every year, a poetry slam is held at Poets House in Manhattan. Boys and girls from high schools and middle...

October 15, 2014September 9, 2019
Spotlight On! Poem-a-Day

Spotlight On! Poem-a-Day

Imagine a world slightly revised. All major consequences of the day remain the same– sleeping, waking, working, eating– but the...

October 15, 2014September 9, 2019
Required Reading

Required Reading

This year, Girls Write Now is counting. A mentorship program that pairs established writers with teenage girls from underprivileged areas...

October 7, 2014September 10, 2019
Some Questions About Empathy and Reading

Some Questions About Empathy and Reading

First Questions: The Limits of Empathy I taught two creative writing courses as a graduate student. My undergraduates wanted answers...

October 1, 2014September 10, 2019
Her Name Literally Meant Hero

Her Name Literally Meant Hero

Mavis Gallant died in February of this year, at the age of 92. She is one of my favorite writers....

September 20, 2014September 10, 2019
SUBMITATHON! as Applied Feminist Epistemology: Rejecting Models of Scarcity, Believing in Plenty

SUBMITATHON! as Applied Feminist Epistemology: Rejecting Models of Scarcity, Believing in Plenty

I. When I was a Stanford sophomore I took a class called Feminist Epistemology—I know, right?—that looked at ways of...

September 13, 2014September 10, 2019
Confessional Poetics & Intellectual Distancing: A Struggle Against Patriarchal Conventions

Confessional Poetics & Intellectual Distancing: A Struggle Against Patriarchal Conventions

When I was a sophomore in college, a well known and well-awarded male poetry professor told me that because I...

September 7, 2014September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #16: “Obviously you feel some kind of icky…”

Dear Fury #16: “Obviously you feel some kind of icky…”

Dear Fury, What do you do when you’re really into someone but they are not a good writer and probably...

August 16, 2014September 10, 2019
Spotlight On! Weave Magazine

Spotlight On! Weave Magazine

Welcome back to Spotlight On!, VIDA’s feature celebrating literary publications that publish exemplary work and include within their pages a...

July 24, 2014September 10, 2019
Twenty ‘Gypsy’ Women You Should Be Reading

Twenty ‘Gypsy’ Women You Should Be Reading

June is Roma and Traveller History Month, which began as an effort to educate people about these culturally rich, diverse,...

June 21, 2014September 10, 2019
Resisting Tropes: On Poetry, Masochism, & Domestic Violence

Resisting Tropes: On Poetry, Masochism, & Domestic Violence

PART I At dinner she asked why I write such sad poems. And I told her, “my poems are not...

June 4, 2014September 10, 2019
The Wonderful Experience of Girls Write Now

The Wonderful Experience of Girls Write Now

The Mentoring Experience – from K.T. I began mentoring with Girls Write Now in September of 2013. That’s when I...

June 1, 2014September 10, 2019
WRITING MURDER: LAST WORDS FOR XX XX

WRITING MURDER: LAST WORDS FOR XX XX

I get it, the lure of a murderer’s words. They exert an undeniable pull—this is someone talking from the outer...

May 30, 2014September 10, 2019
The Moral Imperative

The Moral Imperative

If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for? – Alice Walker Woody’s career as a...

May 26, 2014September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #15: “Complain about them all you want… but don’t stop writing!”

Dear Fury #15: “Complain about them all you want… but don’t stop writing!”

Dear Fury, Poetry and I needed a time-out, a mutually-agreed break-up. Call it conscious uncoupling, if you want. Writing no...

May 22, 2014September 10, 2019
Spotlight On! Ninth Letter

Spotlight On! Ninth Letter

Welcome to Spotlight On!, VIDA’s new feature celebrating literary publications that publish exemplary work and include a diverse representation of...

May 4, 2014September 10, 2019
The World Is Much Less Safe

The World Is Much Less Safe

“If you know where the light is and it goes out it frightens and pours ice through you. Like somehow...

April 28, 2014September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #14: “Where Babies Come From”

Dear Fury #14: “Where Babies Come From”

Dear Fury, I am wondering about some pretty big things these days… As my daughter enters the world of school...

April 21, 2014September 10, 2019
Report from the Field: “NO ONE WANTS TO READ ABOUT THEM”

Report from the Field: “NO ONE WANTS TO READ ABOUT THEM”

When I was in my early 20s in my MFA program, I had the opportunity to have a consultation with...

April 21, 2014September 9, 2019
Report from the Field: “MISOGYNY ALERT”

Report from the Field: “MISOGYNY ALERT”

I continue to be troubled by what I witnessed at an off-site reading at AWP in Seattle, WA. At this...

April 12, 2014September 9, 2019
Introducing: Reports from the Field

Introducing: Reports from the Field

Once, when I was in my 20s, I sat at a restaurant after a poetry reading with a small group...

April 9, 2014September 9, 2019
DEAR FURY #13: “Fury is confusing herself with her good manners!”

DEAR FURY #13: “Fury is confusing herself with her good manners!”

Dear Fury, I am a newbie writer who has tried many careers before coming back to the one Ms. James...

March 24, 2014September 10, 2019
Women’s Citizenship in the “Republic of Letters” One-Hundred and Thirty Years Ago and Today

Women’s Citizenship in the “Republic of Letters” One-Hundred and Thirty Years Ago and Today

The 2013 VIDA count has again drawn attention to continuing gender inequities in the literary world. Over the past four...

March 16, 2014September 10, 2019
VIDA’s CALL TO ADVENTURE

VIDA’s CALL TO ADVENTURE

In the Hero’s Journey mythic story structure, the hero hears the “call to adventure” and then makes a choice: she...

February 23, 2014September 10, 2019
What Is a Classic?

What Is a Classic?

It’s a Pandora’s Box of a question. The buzz over writing by women gained steam in 2013, encouraged by a...

February 23, 2014September 10, 2019
This Is Not About Your Understanding

This Is Not About Your Understanding

VIDAs, I wanted to share a few thoughts on how we[1] might use 2014 to curate, incite, extend and in...

February 22, 2014September 10, 2019
THIRTY-ONE QUESTIONS AND TWELVE APOLOGIES BY WAY OF A THANK-YOU NOTE FOR THE 2013 VIDA COUNT

THIRTY-ONE QUESTIONS AND TWELVE APOLOGIES BY WAY OF A THANK-YOU NOTE FOR THE 2013 VIDA COUNT

  I 1. What is gender and how did you know? How did you find out? 2. If you identify...

February 21, 2014September 10, 2019
DEAR FURY #12: “What people like Professor Asshat don’t ever expect is the strength of their prey…”

DEAR FURY #12: “What people like Professor Asshat don’t ever expect is the strength of their prey…”

Dear Fury, I am currently enrolled in a fully-funded MFA program, and am so grateful for the opportunity and privilege...

February 17, 2014September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #11: “But what I’ve written just isn’t meant for little eyes and ears.”

Dear Fury #11: “But what I’ve written just isn’t meant for little eyes and ears.”

Dear Fury, You know how movies have ratings like PG, PG-13 and R? Well, a lot of my writing tends...

December 14, 2013September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #10: “What you write might hurt them… but please don’t let them take away the thing you love.”

Dear Fury #10: “What you write might hurt them… but please don’t let them take away the thing you love.”

Dear Fury, How much of a claim do I have on my own life?  Memories are permanent and I cannot...

October 28, 2013September 10, 2019

The Lives of Girls and Women: the Writing of Alice Munro

*Grateful acknowledgement is made to The Center for Fiction where this essay first appeared. A portion of this tribute is...

October 23, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #16: JD Scott for Moonshot

Editor’s Corner #16: JD Scott for Moonshot

Welcome back to Editor’s Corner, a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore complex issues regarding sex, gender, race...

October 15, 2013September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #9: “I write, motherfucker, you got a problem with that?”

Dear Fury #9: “I write, motherfucker, you got a problem with that?”

Dear Fury, My problem is a bit embarrassing but since this is an anonymous forum, I’m going to let it...

September 20, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #15: Carey Salerno for Alice James Books

Editor’s Corner #15: Carey Salerno for Alice James Books

Welcome back to Editor’s Corner, a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore complex issues regarding sex, gender, race...

September 18, 2013September 10, 2019
Locked Out of the Little House: Hollywood Shuts the Door on Women Directors. Again.

Locked Out of the Little House: Hollywood Shuts the Door on Women Directors. Again.

I’ve often wondered why none of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic children’s books have been adapted for the big screen. Based...

September 4, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #14: Danielle Dutton for Dorothy

Editor’s Corner #14: Danielle Dutton for Dorothy

The 14th installment of Editor’s Corner is here! Editor’s Corner is a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore complex...

August 30, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #13: Kim Bridgford for Mezzo Cammin

Editor’s Corner #13: Kim Bridgford for Mezzo Cammin

The 13th installment of Editor’s Corner — a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore complex issues regarding sex, gender,...

August 14, 2013September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #8: You need to stop being so fucking delighted with yourself and learn to incorporate writing into your life.

Dear Fury #8: You need to stop being so fucking delighted with yourself and learn to incorporate writing into your life.

Dear Fury, I have fallen in love in mid-life.  It’s a passionate, wild ride for me right now with this...

July 28, 2013September 10, 2019

The Cold Heart of James Salter

*Grateful acknowledgement is made to the editors of Slate where this essay was originally published in June 2013. William Faulkner, in his...

July 23, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #12: Lisa Pearson for Siglio

Editor’s Corner #12: Lisa Pearson for Siglio

In our 12th installment of Editor’s Corner — a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore complex issues regarding sex,...

July 16, 2013September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #7: We human beings trudge through the world as honorably as we can.

Dear Fury #7: We human beings trudge through the world as honorably as we can.

Dear Fury, How can a gal reconcile her personal ideologies with the professional world? I understand that this world is...

July 8, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #11: Kirby Johnson, Sophie Rosenblum & Elizabeth Wade for NANO Fiction

Editor’s Corner #11: Kirby Johnson, Sophie Rosenblum & Elizabeth Wade for NANO Fiction

Welcome (back!) to Editor’s Corner, a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore complex issues regarding sex, gender, race and...

July 4, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #10: Kate Angus for Augury Books

Editor’s Corner #10: Kate Angus for Augury Books

This week marks the 10th installment of Editor’s Corner. Editor’s Corner is a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore...

June 25, 2013September 10, 2019

Notes to My Younger Self #1: Rachel Haley Himmelheber

Introduction by Carmen Gimenez Smith My youngest sister killed herself about a year ago. At the time, I felt like...

June 16, 2013September 10, 2019

Editor’s Corner #9: Kim Wyatt for Cherry Bomb Books

Welcome back to Editor’s Corner for our 9th installment, in which we hear from  Kim Wyatt, founder of Cherry  Bomb...

June 12, 2013September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #6: “Too often writers can fall into a bad pattern of circle jerking and that’s really unproductive for everyone.”

Dear Fury #6: “Too often writers can fall into a bad pattern of circle jerking and that’s really unproductive for everyone.”

  Dear Fury, There’s a woman in my writer’s group who is constantly putting the rest of us down. She’s...

June 3, 2013September 10, 2019

Editor’s Corner #8: Kristina Marie Darling for Noctuary Press

Welcome to our 8th edition of Editor’s Corner, a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore complex issues regarding...

May 28, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #7: Judy Berman & Niina Pollari for It’s Complicated

Editor’s Corner #7: Judy Berman & Niina Pollari for It’s Complicated

Welcome to the 7th installment of Editor’s Corner, a VIDAWeb feature in which editors and publishers explore complex issues regarding...

May 14, 2013September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #5: “But I’m a writer, motherfucker! Words matter!”

Dear Fury #5: “But I’m a writer, motherfucker! Words matter!”

Dear Fury, I know your column is for writers with writer problems, and I’m not sure my problem falls into...

May 8, 2013September 10, 2019

Art + Access at AWP: We’re Nobody, Who Are You?: A Response to the Panel “Numbers Trouble: Editors and Writers Speak to VIDA’s Count”

Claire Lawrence: I was the middle aged woman in the third row from the back, worried that her hair and...

May 8, 2013September 10, 2019

Women Writers and Bad Interviews

Ed. Note: This opinion  piece is reprinted from Talking Writing with the permission of the author and publisher. Q: Don’t...

April 22, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #6: Kate Partridge for So to Speak

Editor’s Corner #6: Kate Partridge for So to Speak

Welcome to installment number 6 of Editor’s Corner. This week Kate Partridge talks to us about running a multi-genre, feminist...

April 17, 2013September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #4: That’s just a worry about the slush turning to ice.

Dear Fury #4: That’s just a worry about the slush turning to ice.

Dear Fury, The MFA decision date is nearing, and I’m choosing between two great programs – in many ways, a...

April 12, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #5: Lori Desrosiers for Naugatuck River Review

Editor’s Corner #5: Lori Desrosiers for Naugatuck River Review

Welcome to this week’s installment of Editor’s Corner. This week we feature Lori Desrosiers, editor of Naugatuck River Review. Desrosiers...

April 10, 2013September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #3: It’s bullshit to think parenthood is, by definition, a career-killer.

Dear Fury #3: It’s bullshit to think parenthood is, by definition, a career-killer.

Dear Fury, I am thirty. And I want to have a baby. But everyone tells me that I should wait...

March 25, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #4: Abigail Beckel and Kathleen Rooney for Rose Metal Press

Editor’s Corner #4: Abigail Beckel and Kathleen Rooney for Rose Metal Press

Welcome to this week’s installment of Editor’s Corner in which we hear from the editors of Rose Metal Press, Abigail...

March 18, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #3: Janet Holmes for Ahsahta Press

Editor’s Corner #3: Janet Holmes for Ahsahta Press

In the third installment of Editor’s Corner, Janet Holmes from Ahsahta Press joins us. Holmes has been with Ahsahta for...

March 5, 2013September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #2: Besides, it’s that wounded look in our partners’ eyes that reminds us we’re all despicable people at heart.

Dear Fury #2: Besides, it’s that wounded look in our partners’ eyes that reminds us we’re all despicable people at heart.

Dear Fury, I’m a writer who’s about to marry a non-writer. My female writer-friends are urging me to get a...

March 4, 2013September 10, 2019
COUNTING: Amy King Talks with Tin House Editor Rob Spillman

COUNTING: Amy King Talks with Tin House Editor Rob Spillman

Amy King:  Thanks so much for being in touch with us here at VIDA.  It’s heartening to hear that the...

March 4, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #2: Lisa Marie Basile for Patasola Press

Editor’s Corner #2: Lisa Marie Basile for Patasola Press

Welcome to Editor’s Corner, a new VIDAWeb feature, in which editors of diverse publications and literary projects weigh in regarding...

February 27, 2013September 10, 2019
Editor’s Corner #1: Jennifer Schomburg Kanke for The Southeast Review

Editor’s Corner #1: Jennifer Schomburg Kanke for The Southeast Review

Welcome to Editor’s Corner, a new VIDAWeb feature, in which editors of diverse publications and literary projects weigh in regarding...

February 19, 2013September 10, 2019
Dear Fury #1: “For a slimy little fucker like that . . .”

Dear Fury #1: “For a slimy little fucker like that . . .”

Dear Fury, I’ve been super hot for a guy in my poetry workshop (MFA, if you want to know). My...

February 16, 2013September 10, 2019

Bad Girls: An Interview with Carol Moldaw and Abigail DeWitt

Carol Moldaw and Abigail DeWitt went to the same boarding school in Northern California a few years apart and then...

January 9, 2013September 10, 2019

To Be Pure. What Would It Look and Feel Like?: An Interview with Julianna Baggott

Julianna Baggott is the bestselling and acclaimed author of 18 books. A novelist in several genres, a poet and essayist,...

November 29, 2012September 10, 2019
The Establishment: The Old Face of the Grand Old Patriarchy

The Establishment: The Old Face of the Grand Old Patriarchy

Immediately following President Obama’s reelection, news sources proclaimed ‘The Establishment GOP is Dead’. It was almost like they were a...

November 29, 2012September 10, 2019
A Boy in a Man’s Theater

A Boy in a Man’s Theater

We are the 70% (or is it 17%?) VIDA has yet to embark on an official count of the number...

May 1, 2012September 10, 2019
Women of Being:  An Anti-List of Under-Acknowledged Authors

Women of Being: An Anti-List of Under-Acknowledged Authors

In a culture saturated with top-ten lists of everything from books to bikes to baby names — what can we...

February 27, 2012September 10, 2019
Women and Children First!  Why anyone who cares about gender and literature should pick up a children’s book. Now.

Women and Children First! Why anyone who cares about gender and literature should pick up a children’s book. Now.

The first time I heard that Judy Blume is one of the most censored/challenged American authors of all time, I...

February 24, 2012September 10, 2019

Human Lives: A conversation between Jane Hirshfield and Leslie McGrath

Jane Hirshfield speaks with poet Leslie McGrath about what it means to be women-poets of their generation. The two met in 2004 at the Bennington Writing Seminars, when Hirshfield was McGrath’s teacher.

November 4, 2011September 10, 2019

A History of Neglect

Pick up any book at the bookstore: more than likely it was commissioned, edited, proofed, designed by women. In fact,...

October 2, 2011September 10, 2019

On Writing Quimera and other Fears

Author’s Note: As a female Hispanic playwright of mixed race, I’ve tried to capture the unsteady, uncomfortable relationship between female...

July 19, 2011September 10, 2019

Biting The Hand: VIDA Women Discuss Their Selection For The Best American Series

We’ve arrived with the numbers for the Best American series, interested to see how women fare on the “Best American” front. Parity has eluded us again. Moreover, your work has appeared, at some point, in these anthologies, and now you’re playing for Team VIDA! While our goals are to point out imbalances, query and explore the implied bias, I’m wondering if you all feel a little conflicted, as though you’re biting the proverbial hand that feeds or, at least, has praised you? (more...)

May 30, 2011September 10, 2019
Some Notes on My Sense of an Interior*

Some Notes on My Sense of an Interior*

[A Paper presented on the panel: The Great Indoors: Gender, Writing and Re-envisioning Literary Merit, AWP 2011, Washington, DC] I...

May 5, 2011September 10, 2019

By Circumstance and Design: Gender, Writing, and Interiority

“By circumstance and design, the work of many women writers is concerned with issues of interiority.” That’s the first sentence...

May 5, 2011September 10, 2019

Introduction

The two essays VIDA features this month were occasioned by the Publisher’s Weekly (PW) list of the 10 Best Books...

May 5, 2011September 10, 2019

Being Female

Editor’s Note You may have already read Eileen Myles’ essay “Being Female,” and so wonder why VIDA chose to reprint...

March 6, 2011September 10, 2019

Womanly Regard: Gender and the Act of Making Nonfiction

Lately, as a new member of the VIDA Genre Advisory Committee for creative nonfiction, I’ve been wrestling with a paradox:...

March 6, 2011September 10, 2019

Market Casualty: The Essay I Never Wanted to Write

The writing felt timid to me, overly concerned with explaining myself and my family to an audience I was told to imagine as ignorant about Iran but open-minded and eager to learn. What was never said was that this presumed audience was white and middle class. I was supposed to write for this demographic because they buy the most books.

December 4, 2010September 10, 2019

VIDA Interview with Anne Waldman: “From the Larynx”

A feminine academe could bring the poetry calling and practice back to the source, and explore the feminine history of this literary outrider world. And it’s happening already.

December 2, 2010September 10, 2019

Are the Masters of the Ceremony the Masters of Our Literary Tradition?

In the previous fifteen years, The Academy of American Poet’s prizes went to forty-one men and thirty-nine women. These numbers may seem reassuring, but keep in mind that they are not representative of an overall balance in individual prizes.

November 11, 2010September 10, 2019

Writing in the Air

When I was asked to write this essay and explore what it means to be a woman who writes for the theatre in the 20th and 21st centuries, I wrestled long and hard with the subject of a) being a woman who writes and b) a woman who writes for the theatre. Are they different things? Should they be?

November 8, 2010September 10, 2019

Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose

I do not believe that apparent authoritative literary voices of validation would ever make such a grand claim about a novel written by a woman. I say this because I believe there are many novels by women that are about the same sort of world as presented in Freedom. Sadly, the culture usually calls these books domestic or family sagas.

November 7, 2010September 10, 2019

What We Talk About When We’re Talking About “The Count”

"I would hope that all readers, writers, and editors who agree that the disparity is, in fact, unfair, will join the discussion and help us to move toward ways to support and encourage the work of more women writers."

October 1, 2010September 10, 2019

Amy King Talks with Christian Teresi, Conference Director of AWP

"I talk to a lot of attendees––strangers, colleagues, and friends––about which events standout and which events they think didn’t work particularly well. Ultimately, the AWP conference has very little to do with what I think anyway; what matters is what the AWP members and the conference attendees think. Though I don’t get to see much of the conference, I feel very lucky to be able to honestly say I love my job."

October 1, 2010September 10, 2019

Full Disclosure: I Was A Teenage Poetry Bride

"I convinced myself that I was exceptional, that anyone could see my good grades were well earned, my talent apparent. I now know this kind of rationalization has another name: in this case a big, self-justifying pile of it. Because the fact is many of my classmates were rightfully disturbed by my special status."

August 31, 2010September 10, 2019

Where We Bump and Grind It: On Resisting Redemption in Women’s Memoir

"The self-defining ways we discuss female sexuality in the lesbian-queer world might help transform how female sexuality is explored in all women's creative nonfiction, and might be of use to any woman in search of a smart, witty rethinking of erotic expression. I say this as a challenge to myself, as well as to all CNF writers and their publishers."

August 31, 2010September 10, 2019

Arielle Greenberg on “Gynocentric Anthems,” the Gurlesque, and Creative Partnerships

"I actually think there could be another kind of anthem, a more complicated and nebulous anthem that nonetheless loses none of its riot or exuberance, and I love the idea of a gynocentric anthem: I’ve been really interesting in reading and writing such poems."

August 31, 2010September 10, 2019

Africa is in This World – On Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Adichie herself writes about Africa, or, about Africa in America. A conflagration of geographies that she subtly and heroically describes. New subjects in the here and now.

July 8, 2010September 10, 2019

Due Date vs. Deadline

When I was informed that my baby would arrive on February 27th of 2009, I wrote it down in my calendar.... I was in fact preoccupied with another deadline: my application for the James Merrill House residency, which was due on January 15th. So when I landed in the hospital on January 3rd because my water broke...

March 29, 2010September 10, 2019

VIDA Reads with Writers!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Lisa D. DeNeal!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Lisa D. DeNeal!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am currently reading Whiskey & Ribbons...

November 30, 2018September 9, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Kwoya Fagin Maples!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Kwoya Fagin Maples!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m currently reading Jessmyn Ward’s novel Sing,...

September 12, 2018September 9, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Tyrese L. Coleman!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Tyrese L. Coleman!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? ​I’m taking it back to the old...

August 17, 2018September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Sara Iacovelli!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Sara Iacovelli!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Shrill by Lindy West. It’s made me...

October 23, 2017September 9, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Emma Cosh!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Emma Cosh!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today?  I’m reading A Little Princess by Frances...

October 17, 2017September 9, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Sheila McMullin!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Sheila McMullin!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Well. I tend toward poetry collections, lyric...

October 9, 2017September 9, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Elisabeth Reidy Denison!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Elisabeth Reidy Denison!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Stacy Schiff’s The Witches. Camille Rankine’s Incorrect...

August 13, 2017September 9, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Kelly Lynn Thomas!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Kelly Lynn Thomas!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m reading Everfair by Nisi Shawl. It’s a...

August 6, 2017September 9, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Christina Djossa!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Christina Djossa!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am currently living in Patan, Nepal,...

July 20, 2017September 9, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Jaime Lowe!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Jaime Lowe!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m finishing up Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Novels....

July 3, 2017September 9, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Sarah Clark!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Sarah Clark!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Ching-In Chen’s recombinant. Wendy Xu’s Phrasis. I’m...

June 25, 2017September 9, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Ellie Tipton!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Ellie Tipton!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? WARNING: It’s ALL Poetry. I’ve been trying...

June 13, 2017September 9, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Mañana Means Heaven (University of Arizona Press,...

August 11, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Ashaki M. Jackson!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Ashaki M. Jackson!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I just started Vievee Francis’s Forest Primeval. It has...

August 10, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Shanna Compton!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Shanna Compton!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am finally reading Geek Love by...

July 27, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Mary Jo Bang!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Mary Jo Bang!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Sadly, there are no subways in St....

July 26, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m re-reading The Salt Eaters by Toni...

July 24, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers–Sayantani Dasgupta!

VIDA Reads with Writers–Sayantani Dasgupta!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am rereading Sonali Deraniyagala’s searing memoir...

July 20, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Michelle Tea!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Michelle Tea!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? What I’m reading, specifically in the morning...

July 17, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Sabina Vanessa Paneva!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Sabina Vanessa Paneva!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am currently in the midst of...

June 13, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Monica Drake!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Monica Drake!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales,...

May 9, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Farnoosh Fathi!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Farnoosh Fathi!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry...

May 6, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Tisa Bryant!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Tisa Bryant!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’ve been carrying around and nibbling on...

March 30, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Sheila Black!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Sheila Black!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I just finished M Train by Patti...

March 15, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Charlie Jane Anders

VIDA Reads with Writers – Charlie Jane Anders

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I was just on a plane to...

March 14, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – francine j. harris!

VIDA Reads with Writers – francine j. harris!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today?  Diane Seuss’ Four Legged Girl is in my car...

February 28, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Maxe Crandall!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Maxe Crandall!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’ve just started Jarett Kopek’s new novel I Hate the...

February 26, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Monica Wendel!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Monica Wendel!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today?  I just finished Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, which is...

February 25, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Tamiko Beyer!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Tamiko Beyer!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today?  I’ve been reading a lot of novels lately; I’m...

February 25, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads With Writers — Iris Cushing!

VIDA Reads With Writers — Iris Cushing!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Anita Loos’ 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It’s the...

February 24, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers: J. Mae Barizo!

VIDA Reads with Writers: J. Mae Barizo!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today?  The Vegetarian, by Han Kang My Ogre Book, Shadow...

February 20, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers: Naomi Jackson!

VIDA Reads with Writers: Naomi Jackson!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m taking a break from my beloved...

February 15, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Brynn Saito!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Brynn Saito!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? The beautiful anthology, Language for a New Century:...

February 12, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Wendy Xu!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Wendy Xu!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran, by...

February 11, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Hannah Sanghee Park!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Hannah Sanghee Park!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Kazim Ali’s Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the...

February 5, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Carina del Valle Schorske!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Carina del Valle Schorske!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Poetry was made for the wiggle room...

February 3, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Ocean Vuong!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Ocean Vuong!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Christopher Soto’s Sad Girl Poems and Garth...

January 30, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Read with Writers – Rachel McKibbens!

VIDA Read with Writers – Rachel McKibbens!

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

January 30, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Don Mee Choi!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Don Mee Choi!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Valerie Mejer Caso’s This Blue Novel (Action...

January 30, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Craig Santos Perez!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Craig Santos Perez!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I live in Hawaiʻi so the book...

January 29, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Melissa Chadburn!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Melissa Chadburn!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m slutting out on all sorts of...

January 29, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – TC Tolbert!

VIDA Reads with Writers – TC Tolbert!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m always in the midst of several...

January 26, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Stacy Szymaszek!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Stacy Szymaszek!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Keith Haring Journals. What book popped for you...

January 26, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Christopher Soto!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Christopher Soto!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I just picked up “Thief in the...

January 26, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Treasure Shields Redmond!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Treasure Shields Redmond!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am reading Michelle Alexander’s The New...

January 24, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I just got an incredible trifecta of...

January 24, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Amber Atiya!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Amber Atiya!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am loving The Subsequent Blues by Gary Copeland...

January 23, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Kima Jones!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Kima Jones!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am currently reading Lan Samantha Chang‘s Hunger,...

January 22, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Wendy C. Ortiz!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Wendy C. Ortiz!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Butcher’s Tree by Feng Sun Chen and Maison Femme by...

January 22, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers — Krystal Languell!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Krystal Languell!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’m making my way through Alice Notley’s...

January 21, 2016September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Morgan Parker

VIDA Reads with Writers – Morgan Parker

1.) What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Khadijah Queen’s Fearful Beloved, out now from...

December 30, 2015September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Jamia Wilson

VIDA Reads with Writers – Jamia Wilson

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am usually reading a couple of...

December 14, 2015September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Kazim Ali!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Kazim Ali!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today?  I’m reading WET LAND by Lucas de...

October 29, 2015September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Fred Moten!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Fred Moten!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David...

October 28, 2015September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Jodi Picoult!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Jodi Picoult!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin What book...

October 28, 2015September 10, 2019
VIDA Reads with Writers – Bhanu Kapil!

VIDA Reads with Writers – Bhanu Kapil!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I just finished the fourth book in...

October 28, 2015September 10, 2019

VIDA Voices and Views

Joy Harjo – VIDA Voices & Views

Joy Harjo – VIDA Voices & Views

March 13, 2019September 6, 2019
Fatimah Asghar – VIDA Voices & Views Interview (Part II)

Fatimah Asghar – VIDA Voices & Views Interview (Part II)

February 7, 2019September 9, 2019
Fatimah Asghar – VIDA Voices & Views Interview (Part I)

Fatimah Asghar – VIDA Voices & Views Interview (Part I)

February 6, 2019September 9, 2019
Don Share – VIDA Voices & Views (Part II)

Don Share – VIDA Voices & Views (Part II)

August 18, 2017September 10, 2019