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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 “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 […]
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 […]
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 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! 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]