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Clever Dude
succubus in my pocket is a book of experimental poetry by the late, great trans poet kari edwards (1954-2006). In the foreword, edwards — she preferred her name, as well as the book’s title, in lower case — is described as one of transgender literature’s “driving forces and homing beacons.”
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VIDA is an organization with a unique mission: to quantify women’s representation in the literary arts. Their approach? Count.
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On the last Saturday and Sunday of July, poets and poetry lovers braved the rain and boarded the ferry to Governor’s Island.
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Masculinity is fragile. While it’s only been fairly recently that this fact has been discussed in mainstream discourse, not only does it resonate with many…
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…There is an argument for poetry being deep but I am not that argument. Eileen Myles, “A Poem,” Not Me I BECAME INTERESTED in Eileen…
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THE PHRASE “19th-CENTURY BLACK WOMEN WRITERS” probably brings to mind only one or two names. Sojourner Truth, probably; Phyllis Wheatley if you’re fancy. If you…
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FROM SUFFRAGIST PAMPHLETS to the xeroxed zines of riot grrl, DIY publishing is one of the oldest tricks in the feminist book. Creating and controlling…
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JHUMPA LAHIRI describes her relationship to Italian as a love affair: “When you’re in love, you want to live forever… Reading in Italian arouses a…
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SAD BUT TRUE: feminist businesses are becoming as rare as unicorns. Sure, we have Girlbosses and female CEOs who like to Lean In, but down…
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MOST PEOPLE EXPERIENCE POEMS as so puzzling and irrelevant that new books of poetry are burdened with the task of proving their right to exist.…
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MARY GAITSKILL’S THE MARE revolves around a pun: the aural slippage between the title — “mare” — and “mère,” which is French for “mother.” To see this…
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A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN finds Virginia Woolf in 1929, trying “to remember any case in the course of [her] reading where two women are…
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