March 29, 2018
On Writing, Workshop & Mental Health: A Roundtable (Part 1)
The following began as a conversation on Twitter initiated by this tweet by Emma Bolden, which opened up a larger conversation about the writing life, workshop experiences, and how we deal […]
March 21, 2018
Ways To Be Marvelously Supportive (or Critical) of Community Focused Projects
We can show support within our community in countless ways. From donating money or resources, to sharing our skill sets, helping with publicity, building collaborations among wonderful organizations, problem solving […]
March 14, 2018
Poeta, You Resist
Author’s Note: The following was read at the Women of Resistance book launch last night, March 13th, 2018, at Strand Bookstore in NYC. I wanted to write a piece that incorporated the […]
March 12, 2018
#MeToo and The Necessity of Transformative Justice Practices in Writing Communities
Writers are strange creatures that spend most of their time locked inside their brains–which is what is required to birth books. We grow new characters, unrealized technology, new forms of […]
February 28, 2018
Anyway What’s Left Of These Two Worlds Collided
I I was standing You were there Two worlds collided And they could never tear us apart —“Never Tear Us Apart,” INXS A year ago, when we first met, you […]
February 27, 2018
Gentrified Hegemony
We rarely talk about how cultural hegemony works within the process of gentrification, although the process itself is inherently one of cultural and social environment change. We talk about the […]
February 25, 2018
“At last you’re tired of this elderly world:” Towards a New Judaism through Poetry
We harness ourselves over and over wherever hope is a yellow shore. —“Nomad,” Robin Beth Schaer Decades later, no, I still can’t let it go: that Rosh Hashanah my […]
January 27, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XII: Precursors)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part XI: Insistence)”] Terrance Hayes ended a 2006 post for Harriet, the Poetry Foundation blog, by writing that “it is possible to value two very different things at […]
December 30, 2017
A Better Tomorrow
I’m in Hong Kong with my husband and his family for the holidays, and finishing up a longer work on what I envision would be a better tomorrow. It will […]
December 22, 2017
Diversity First
Inspired by Caroline Hagood’s brilliant blog about erasure poetry and the seven words banned to the Centers for Disease Control (“Banned Words and Erasure Poetry”), I’ve come up with a […]
December 20, 2017
American Sonnets (Part VIII: A Tale of Two Sonnets)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part VII: Close-up On Coleman)”] The first published sonnet by Terrance Hayes I can find is in his debut collection Muscular Music, originally published by Tia Chucha […]
December 17, 2017
On Stones, New Eternities & Poetry
To our land, and it is a prize of war, the freedom to die from longing and burning and our land, in its bloodied night, is a jewel that glimmers […]