The Joy of Play: Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces (10th Anniversary Ed.) by David Biespiel
Biespiel offers a number of best practices—not just for writing poems, but for living a creative life.
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Intimate and Vast: Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
This is stunning work—painful, embodied, and glorious.
We Will Not Be Contained: Pretty Bitches and Too Much
There will always be another word used against us.
Ode to Girlhood: Olivia Gatwood’s Life of the Party
The world that suffocates girls still has a lot to learn from them.
The Search for Permanence: Hilary Leichter’s Temporary
A permanent job doesn’t need her, and neither do her boyfriends.
Living to Survive: Bodega by Su Hwang
Bodega is one of the most experimental and ambitious projects that I have encountered.
The Privilege of Art: Courtney Maum’s Costalegre
There is no real freedom to create art, only the obligation to wealth.
Time Is Money: Porn Carnival by Rachel Rabbit White
This isn’t a book about loss; rather, it’s a book about sheer willpower and intentionality.
The Body Uncanny: Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch
Though the stories vary in length and scope, each cuts deep into a truth of humanity.
Writing Through: You Are No Longer in Trouble by Nicole Stellon O’Donnell
There are no line breaks here because there are no breaks here.
The Power of the Crone: Ursula K. Le Guin’s No Time to Spare
Sweet, nurturing, platitude-accepting granny Le Guin is not.
Fraught Woods: Chelsea Rathburn’s Still Life with Mother and Knife
These are the woods through which we walk from an early age.