Posts Tagged National Poetry Month

By Syreeta McFadden • 10 years ago

Your Daily Poem: Sharon Olds

Ed. note: For National Poetry Month, we’re highlighting one feminist poem each day in April. See the whole series here.

Sharon Olds reads ‘Ode to the Douchebag’.

Syreeta McFadden teaches, writes, and shoots pictures, and is a co-curator of Poets In Unexpected Places.

Ed. note: For National Poetry Month, we’re highlighting one feminist poem each day in April. See the whole series here.

Sharon Olds reads ‘Ode to the Douchebag’.

Syreeta McFadden teaches, writes, and ...
By Syreeta McFadden • 10 years ago

Your Daily Poem: Lucille Clifton

Ed. note: For National Poetry Month, we’re highlighting one feminist poem each day in April. See the whole series here. 

Today’s poem is “wishes for sons” by Lucille Clifton, from her 1987 collection, Next, New Poems.

Ed. note: For National Poetry Month, we’re highlighting one feminist poem each day in April. See the whole series here. 

Today’s poem is “wishes for sons” by Lucille Clifton, from her 1987 collection,

By Syreeta McFadden • 11 years ago

Remembering Adrienne Rich: “Poetry was a feminist practice”

Ed. note: We regret publishing this piece without acknowledging or critiquing Rich’s history of transphobia and in particular her support for Janice G. Raymond, author of the discriminatory and hateful “The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male.” To be clear: By failing to acknowledge the late author’s views on womanhood, feminists risk writing trans people out of the movement. Please see this piece for a comment from our Executive Editor on this issue.

This past Wednesday marked the anniversary of the death of poet and feminist Adrienne Rich. As we close out Women’s History Month and begin National Poetry Month this Monday, it seems fitting to remember wise words from one of the most prominent voices in ...

Ed. note: We regret publishing this piece without acknowledging or critiquing Rich’s history of transphobia and in particular her support for Janice G. Raymond, author of the discriminatory and hateful “The Transsexual Empire: The Making ...
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