poetry — Essays & Interviews (FEED)

Poetry, Cyborgs and Black Exploitation Month: Interview with Whitney French

Whitney is the founder and co-editor and of the nation-wide publication From the Root Zine and the successful workshop series Writing While Black, an initiative to develop a community of Black writers.

Claire FarleyJuly 11, 2018whitney french, writing while black, from the root, 3 cities, O, poetry, fiction, #writingwhileblack, Black WritersComment

Interview with Soraya Peerbaye

"I love the way poetry has the capacity to hold questions that can’t be answered; to maintain their unanswerability as active, expressive, generative."

Claire FarleyJuly 11, 2018Soraya Peerbaye, Tell, poetry, south asian, nourbese philip, sachiko murakami, carolyn forcheComment

Interview with Deirdre Maultsaid

“In my own view, feminism is the claim to the truth that women have moral, political and sexual agency and should have commensurate influence in the world. Feminists are those that speak that truth and influence social mores, culture, and public life.”