VIDA

VIDA Essays acquired & edited, often through multiple drafts

  • Vidhu Aggarwal “‘I’m Nothing, If Not’: An Anecdote of a Jar”

  • Mirene Arsanios “Many Englishes: On Editing and Power”

  • Abba Belgrave “Self Censored: When Writing is not Right”

  • Amy Berkowitz “Paintings I Won’t Paint”

  • Maria Brandt “Moving Through the Webs”

  • Catherine A Brereton: “About the (Queer) Author”

  • Julia Carey “Writing as a Mother Worker: A Socratic Inquiry”

  • Justine Champine “Notes on Femme and Fiction”

  • Karissa Chen “The Audacity to Dream: On Asian Women, Feminism, and My Grandmother”

  • Cynthia Cruz “Notes Toward a New Language: On Women Poets and Nourishment”

  • Tusia Dabrowska “Language is Home”

  • Natalie Eilbert “What We Don’t Name: The Delicate Path of Literary Crimes”

  • Vanessa Gabb “Let’s Shake the One”

  • Hafizah Geter “On Grief”

  • Ann Glaviano “On (Not) Reporting Sexual Violence”

  • Anya Groner “Gone from My Heart: Violence and Anger in the Poetry Workshop”

  • April Naoko Heck & Purvi Shah “Kundiman 10 Years Later: Reflections on Writing Faculty, Workshops, and Telling Our Collective Truth”

  • Michelle Herman “I Stood There Ironing”

  • Jean Ho “Getting Along Shouldn’t Be an Ambition”

  • Janine Joseph “Language of the Border”

  • Lisa Lee “Racial Invisibility and Erasure in the Writing Workshop”

  • Carrie Lorig “The Intensity of the Reader: Reading as a Guest / A Thief in the Classroom / In the Wreckage”

  • Monica McClure “The Other Section”

  • Jill McDonough “Submitathon! As Applied Feminist Epistomology: Rejecting Models of Scarcity, Believing in Plenty”

  • Lo Kwa Mei-en “Speak Test: The Silencing of the Racialized Body”

  • Gayle Mendez “Youth Poetry Slam”

  • Julia Anna Morrison “The Poet as Beginning Mother”

  • Nayomi Munaweera “Four Moments in the Life of a Brown Female Writer”

  • Monica Ong “Poetry, Community, and Reading the Body”

  • Morgan Parker “White People Love Me: Dispatches from the Token”

  • Phiroozeh Petigara “A Catalog of Exchanges: When Men (Don’t) Read my Words”

  • Catherine Pond “On a Clear Day: Notes on Identity”

  • Cassie Pruyn “Speaking into Silences”

  • Rita Mae Reese “Poetry in Late Capitalism”

  • Margaret Rhee “The Kimchi Poetry Machine Manifesta”

  • Rachel Richardson “To Go to Sea: Making a Place in a Male Literary Landscape”

  • Anna Ross “I Don’t Know How She Does It”

  • Purvi Shah “The Unbearable (White) Maleness of US Poetry: And How We can Enable a Structural Response to Literary Yellowface and Gender Inequity in Publishing”

  • Melissa R. Sipin “Tangential Divagation: Notes of an Immigrant Daughter”

  • Monika Sok “On Fear, Fearlessness, and Intergenerational Trauma”

  • Leigh Stein “Financial Confessions of a Feminist Organizer”

  • Bianca Stone “The House With Feet: The Dire Importance of Ruth Stone’s Bequest”

  • Sara Jane Stoner “Failing at Subjects: The Poetics of the Living Idea”

  • Erika Swyler “On Playing the Nice Woman”

  • Tess Taylor “But Do You Have to Work?”

  • Crissy Van Meter “The Publishing Process is Archaic”

  • Lina Ramona Vitkauskas “White Stockings: A Poetic Study of Mythical Freedom Fighters”

  • Anna Walewska “On Lack of Self-Confidence: Women’s Presence at Art Academies in Poland”

  • Vidhu Aggarwal “‘I’m Nothing, If Not’: An Anecdote of a Jar”

  • Mirene Arsanios “Many Englishes: On Editing and Power”

  • Abba Belgrave “Self Censored: When Writing is not Right”

  • Amy Berkowitz “Paintings I Won’t Paint”

  • Maria Brandt “Moving Through the Webs”

  • Catherine A Brereton: “About the (Queer) Author”

  • Julia Carey “Writing as a Mother Worker: A Socratic Inquiry”

  • Justine Champine “Notes on Femme and Fiction”

  • Karissa Chen “The Audacity to Dream: On Asian Women, Feminism, and My Grandmother”

  • Cynthia Cruz “Notes Toward a New Language: On Women Poets and Nourishment”

  • Tusia Dabrowska “Language is Home”

  • Natalie Eilbert “What We Don’t Name: The Delicate Path of Literary Crimes”

  • Vanessa Gabb “Let’s Shake the One”

  • Hafizah Geter “On Grief”

  • Ann Glaviano “On (Not) Reporting Sexual Violence”

  • Anya Groner “Gone from My Heart: Violence and Anger in the Poetry Workshop”

  • April Naoko Heck & Purvi Shah “Kundiman 10 Years Later: Reflections on Writing Faculty, Workshops, and Telling Our Collective Truth”

  • Michelle Herman “I Stood There Ironing”

  • Jean Ho “Getting Along Shouldn’t Be an Ambition”

  • Janine Joseph “Language of the Border”

  • Lisa Lee “Racial Invisibility and Erasure in the Writing Workshop”

  • Carrie Lorig “The Intensity of the Reader: Reading as a Guest / A Thief in the Classroom / In the Wreckage”

  • Monica McClure “The Other Section”

  • Jill McDonough “Submitathon! As Applied Feminist Epistomology: Rejecting Models of Scarcity, Believing in Plenty”

  • Lo Kwa Mei-en “Speak Test: The Silencing of the Racialized Body”

  • Gayle Mendez “Youth Poetry Slam”

  • Julia Anna Morrison “The Poet as Beginning Mother”

  • Nayomi Munaweera “Four Moments in the Life of a Brown Female Writer”

  • Monica Ong “Poetry, Community, and Reading the Body”

  • Morgan Parker “White People Love Me: Dispatches from the Token”

  • Phiroozeh Petigara “A Catalog of Exchanges: When Men (Don’t) Read my Words”

  • Catherine Pond “On a Clear Day: Notes on Identity”

  • Cassie Pruyn “Speaking into Silences”

  • Rita Mae Reese “Poetry in Late Capitalism”

  • Margaret Rhee “The Kimchi Poetry Machine Manifesta”

  • Rachel Richardson “To Go to Sea: Making a Place in a Male Literary Landscape”

  • Anna Ross “I Don’t Know How She Does It”

  • Purvi Shah “The Unbearable (White) Maleness of US Poetry: And How We can Enable a Structural Response to Literary Yellowface and Gender Inequity in Publishing”

  • Melissa R. Sipin “Tangential Divagation: Notes of an Immigrant Daughter”

  • Monika Sok “On Fear, Fearlessness, and Intergenerational Trauma”

  • Leigh Stein “Financial Confessions of a Feminist Organizer”

  • Bianca Stone “The House With Feet: The Dire Importance of Ruth Stone’s Bequest”

  • Sara Jane Stoner “Failing at Subjects: The Poetics of the Living Idea”

  • Erika Swyler “On Playing the Nice Woman”

  • Tess Taylor “But Do You Have to Work?”

  • Crissy Van Meter “The Publishing Process is Archaic”

  • Lina Ramona Vitkauskas “White Stockings: A Poetic Study of Mythical Freedom Fighters”

  • Anna Walewska “On Lack of Self-Confidence: Women’s Presence at Art Academies in Poland”