The Question of Posting Poetry
Photo by Horia Varlan It seems that everything is apparently trying to steal your privacy, your thoughts and even your identity online. Being a bit technologically challenged, I don’t understand the...
View Articlethe shattering: gender equality in literary magazines: the shock VIDA broke
It’s the new noise in poetry. And it’s completely necessary to shout about. Basically, the numbers are in and they’re pretty shocking. Women in literary magazines? A much rarer creature than you might...
View ArticleVIDA: part 2– the count takes on Best American
VIDA, the organisation for women in the literary arts that caused such a stir back in February with its examination of the gender bias in literary magazines is continuing with its count. This time,...
View ArticleAnis Shivani’s indictment of the contest model & why ‘fairness’ contradicts art
While propping up the bar last night because I was there early and fairly unengaged with sound check, I let myself start thinking about Anis Shivani’s latest bomb of criticism over at HuffPo– ‘Poetry...
View Articlesluttery. or the etiquette of simultaneous submissions
I don’t often think to write about ‘writing advice’ because I have no desire to preach myself a resource of any kind and I am not a resource of any kind. But I do like to whitter on, and my attitude...
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