I'm back from a few days at this year's annual Associated Writing Programs  (AWP) conference, which was held over the last week ...

Photograph by Dana Gluckstein / MPTV Images via  New Yorker Let me start my note about  Ursula K. Le Guin  (1929-2018) by pointing out...

-- Copyright ©  Michelle Cliff , from "If I Could Write This in Fire I Would Write This in Fire," from  Homegirls: A Black Fem...

Wanda Coleman at Woodland Pattern's 25th Anniversary Celebration, Milwaukee (© Woodland Pattern) There is so much to say when a gr...

Jayne Cortez (1934-2012), has passed away after a long illness . She was a original among the Black Arts Movement poets, as likely to w...

"What, in fact, is required of a real man? The repression of emotions and the silencing of sensitivity. Being ashamed of gentleness o...

What an exciting, energizing two days the Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism: A Gathering conference was. I must offer my heartiest t...

The Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism: A Gathering -- Conference begins today at CUNY Graduate Center! The lineup: Thursday, Septem...

Mendi recently pointed me and others towards this site, Delirious Hem: Dim Sum , which I'll let its creators describe: Some of us ...