Over years of working on literary publications, I have never felt particularly compelled to self-disclose as a radical queer editor, instead hoping that the writers I support would make clear my editorial interests. Today, Red Hen Press editor Kate Gale’s tone-deaf, reactionary—perhaps satirical?—piece “AWP Is Us,” posted at Huffington Post, illustrates publishing’s implicit & explicit… Continue reading AWP Is NOT Us
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Join
I've never been a joiner. For someone deeply into so many cultural things--film, veganism, games, feminism, natural healing, poetics--I have just never found a clear-cut group with which I identify. The closest I have ever come to this was--weirdly--in my hometown, when I was still in high school. While most of my close friends were… Continue reading Join
AWP
I'm gearing up emotionally for AWP next week. What a brilliant coincidence that Seattle is hosting the conference this year. Still cannot get over the serendipitous nature of writerly things. I'm feeling pre-event jitters due to the sheer mass of people whose professional and creative work I drool over; both friends and strangers continue to jolt… Continue reading AWP
Jesse Rice-Evans 