Daniela Olszewska Takes the Scary Things People Say About Gender and Poetry Out of Context
head/desk or htmlgiantfail (a cento) ...language over body...i really don't give a fuck if you and your forehead and your paisley wall...


Celebrating Women and the Environment: Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her work for the Environment and Women's Rights. She started the greenbelt...
Woodland Pattern Book Center is looking to hire a full-time Education Coordinator
Woodland Pattern Book Center is looking to hire a full-time Education Coordinator. Woodland Pattern Book Center is dedicated to the...
Rae Armantrout Wins Pulitzer Prize!
To which I say, Whoa! Cool! They're giving the Pulitzer Prize to experimentalish ladytypes now?! Who knew. Here's one of her poems, in...


Marisa Crawford's THE HAUNTED HOUSE Officially Released!
If you're in Denver at AWP right now, make sure you head on over to the Switchback Books table to pick up a glossy new copy of THE...
Help a Sister Out!
Leigh Stein, author of the chapbooks Summer in Paris, How to Mend a Broken Heart with Vengeance, and Least Inhabited Island II, is...
Switchback, Coconut, Tarpaulin Sky, & Artifice @ AWP!
Switchback, Coconut, Tarpaulin Sky, & Artifice @ AWP!
Marisa's Book Party
included a festive sign with the name of her book, which is the coolest book-party idea I have seen in a good long while! Buy The Haunted...

WILLA is LAUNCHED
CHECK IT. MISSION WILLA seeks to explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women through meaningful conversation and the...
the Gurlesque Debate
A debate about the Gurlesque is on. Amy King, Ana Božicevic, Danielle Pafunda, and Lara Glenum (and others) discuss the Gurlesque and...