One of my major projects this summer was reviewing Adrienne Rich’s Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry, edited by Sandra M. Gilbert. One of the biggest challenges with this piece was that there is so much ground to cover in a collected volume of prose that spans more than 50 years, but… Read More Reviewing the Essential Essays of Adrienne Rich
For Pride Month, I thought I’d make a list of some queer authors whose work I’ve enjoyed lately. I could go on and on with this list, but I’ve tried to focus on authors whose work may not be as widely known as it should be, or who may not usually make it onto lists… Read More What to Read During Pride Month
Farrell Greenwald Brenner and I have a new conversation up on the Ms. Magazine blog about feminism, poetry, libraries, and much more. How do we recognize ourselves through reading? Can a library be a war zone, a place of physical danger, a site of contestation? Read more about what happens when two Gender & Women’s… Read More Feminism, libraries, and poetry: a Ms. Magazine conversation
No matter where you live, you probably have a friend who is the ringleader. This friend is the one who gets everyone together, the organizer. They might also be the one who tends to feed people. In some places, this kind of friend is a rarity. And when you don’t have a friend like this,… Read More When Queer Brunch Outgrows the Apartment
Freesia McKee 