Edna = Beyoncé
Please check out my latest for The Toast, on Edna St. Vincent Millay and her glorious sexiness and talent: When women artists are beautiful, they are often accused of exploiting […]
“Trauma Is a Time Machine” on The Toast
It wasn’t trauma like a car crash, all life-shaking terror and cataclysmic sensations. It was trauma the way poverty is trauma: it changed everything in our lives so absolutely we […]
How we found each other, and how I lost him
Isaac was my first reader, the only person I trusted to critique my fumbling attempts at writing my own poems. He was a great reader, even then: unsentimental but generous, […]
2013 VIDA count: check it out
2013 VIDA count: check it out “It all starts with words. In an age where a few women wearing balaclavas can rankle a nation’s head with their 30 second “A […]
On canonicity, dead white men, and living girls
Woody Allen. There, made you shiver, didn’t I? Here is a man who is accused of molesting his daughter when she was a child, and who in fact married a […]
Lyrical Ballads: “Stockton Gala Days” by 10,000 Maniacs
Maybe it’s because winter and the holidays always make me mournful and nostalgic, or maybe it’s because a friend just gave me an Anne of Green Gables-related gift, but the […]
A question of timescales: volcanoes, glass, and gal science
A question of timescales: volcanoes, glass, and gal science Go read my bestie Lynne’s excellent essay on her work in volcanology, which includes this gorgeous description of what glass is, […]
Best New Poets 2013 now out!
Best New Poets 2013 now out! I am delighted that my poem “The Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Cesky Krumlov” is included in this years Best New Poets 2013 anthology, edited by […]
Art that’s smarter than its artist
I am a longtime fan of Ani DiFranco, the feminist singer-songwriter who has inspired countless young women to declare themselves one-woman armies and who used “Fuck you” as a chorus […]
The lives of my personal saints
Do you want to read my essay in praise of Sir David Attenborough? Of course you do. Thanks again to The Toast for publishing my work and generally being amazing. […]
