Last Monday, State University of New York at Buffalo adjunct professor Laura Curry was arrested for what the Huffington Post has flippantly called a “profanity-laced tirade over a pro-life display […]
Author: Amanda Montei
Amanda is a writer and educator living in Los Angeles, where she earned her MFA in Critical Studies & Writing from California Institute of the Arts. She recently completed a memoir, and is now working on book of poems, as well as a series of essays exploring the dynamics of forgiveness, reconciliation and national recoveries from mass atrocities. Her work has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Explosion Proof Magazine, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT Press), Delirious Hem, Nanofiction, Night Train and others. She was a nominee for the 2010 Million Writer's Award.
2012’s Best Books of Poetry by Women
2012 was a great year for poetry, and an even better year for poetry by women. A non-comprehensive list of the best picks for 2012:
Future of Feminism: 50 Global Solutions for Women and Girls
Just in time to honor International Women’s Day, the nonprofit Women Deliver announced its 50 top ideas and solutions for women and girls. While the list–which began with more than […]
Obama Sends Troops to East Africa; Women and Girls Deserve More
Last week, the Associated Press announced that the U.S. would be “venturing into one of Africa’s bloodiest conflicts.” That’s a theatrical way of saying that Obama is sending 100 U.S. […]
High Dropout Rates, No Simple Answers, for Northern Uganda’s Girls
On the brick wall outside Oloo Primary School in northern Uganda, a small chalkboard displays the “attendance record” for students by gender. From first to seventh grade, the number of […]
Crotchless-Pants-and-a-Machine-Gun Feminism
What is “crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun” feminism? The term is inaugurated in Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young‘s new book, A Megaphone, which is a collection of three works by the avant-garde poetic duo. A […]
When Mom Goes Missing
“It’s been one week since Mom went missing.” So begins Kyung-sook Shin’s best-selling Korean novel Please Look After Mom, a haunting and deceptively simple book about a mother’s sudden disappearance. […]
Tiger, Tiger: Exploring The Pedophilic Fantasy
If we aren’t reading as voyeurs, why are we reading? Margaux Fragoso’s debut memoir Tiger, Tiger reminds us that what we are after is understanding, in all its abject, contradictory […]
Powerful, Pithy, Political Poetry
“Poetry is for crap since there’s no money or fast cars in it/ But in the thighs … I feel it.” –from “Preface 1” by Chelsey Minnis, whose work inspired […]
Gaga’s Meaty Protest
It didn’t take long for fashion and food columnists alike to churn out their reactions to what may be Lady’s Gaga most infamous fashion choice yet: an outfit made entirely […]