Collaborators’ Q&A: Poet Stephanie Rogers: I’d post it outside every Weight Watchers (WW) meeting and make it required reading before entering. Fat women especially need to begin seeing and hearing about fatness outside the context of body hatred. Artist Millian Giang Pham: When first reading and rereading the poem, I thought it was mostly about body image. But after much reflection before, during, and after making the artwork, and then seeing the pairing of art and poetry on this broadside, it’s more than just about body image. It’s about self-image and the self’s relation to the all these outside forces.
Artist and educator Millian Giang Pham is on a quest for gestures that shape perception through visual and verbal language. Poet Stephanie Rogers is the author of Plucking the Stinger (Saturnalia Books, 2016) and Fat Girl Forms (Saturnalia Books, 2021).
New Poets of Native Nations Edited: Heid E. Erdrich Graywolf, 2020 ISBN: 978-1-55597-809-9 Get at Bookshop.org Reviewed by Sarah Shapiro When an important American poetry critic put out a call on social media for names of contemporary Native American poets…
We’re nominating six collaborations published by Broadsided Press for the annual Pushcart Prizes. We’re not sure what this venerable literary anthology will do with our collaborative approach and innovative publishing model, but we hope they will agree with us that…
In the Year of Ferraro Jennifer Martelli Nixes Mate, 2020 $12.50; ISBN 978-1-949279-26-9 Get from Bookshop.org Reviewed by Deborah Bacharach The speaker in Jennifer Martelli’s new chapbook In the Year of Ferraro dances under mirror balls, has sex in her…
