Natalie Eilbert
The worry is always whether my indulgence like a regular subject-predicate is universal.
The worry is whether the scope of my writing now rests too firmly on autobiography and the sexual violence of autobiography. […]
Articles by VinylEditors
Sleeping Naked With “Just a Friend”: Examining the Line Between Relationships, Friendships, and Fuckingships
by Hari Ziyad
A friend asked if he could sleep naked in bed with me. A few days before, I lay naked in the arms of another man—a friend too, perhaps my best, but a lover first, I thought. […]
Emilia Phillips
Poetry of Emilia Phillips and a conversation between Phillip B. Williams and Emilia. […]
Postscript: C. D. Wright, 1949-2016, The New Yorker
Academics and reviewers and prize committees and various admirers have tried to pin C. D. down, typically with praise: a Southern poet “of place” (she probably hated that) or an erotic poet or a vanguard […]
Brenda Hillman named chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
The academy told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Hillman will serve for six years as chancellor, an honorary position for which duties range from consulting on programming to judging for prizes. W.H. Auden, John […]
U of A Press, CantoMundo Establish Poetry Prize
The University of Arkansas Press, in partnership with CantoMundo, has established the CantoMundo Poetry Series and CantoMundo Poetry Prize. The $1,000 prize will be awarded to a book of poetry by a contemporary U.S.-based Latina/o […]
E.G. Cunningham
before spark there’s current in the wire. Above the electric field, stars glimmer near the fences’ hum-hush, get weaker. […]
Alysia Nicole Harris
They led her in burqa & blindfold. They (masc. pl.)
executed the mother, Mary.
No scaffold/ elegant gallows. Instead
an industrial crane, all spine and faultless height, […]
On L. Lamar Wilson’s “Legion: Human Immunodeficiency Virus”
by Evan Coday Kleekamp
Imagine a body. This body is a container. It carries a virus. This virus multiplies, it establishes itself in any fitting container. In this case, the virus is HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus; the human body its fitting container. […]
Jill Ann Mceldowney
To The Sea they stopped sending film crews because it got too real. they left their shadows here. the virus started, when the […]