Anonymous November 2011
(“Neither of my books accepted for publication in 2008 will be issued….I have more than ten unpublished manuscripts.”)
Alan BakerNovember 2011
(“England’s lamentable slaverie // the kettle’s boiled”)
Michelle BautistaNovember 2011
(“…it’s important for me to be present, forgiving, truthful, and loving.”)
John Bloomberg-RissmanNovember 2011
(“The lower the level of education, the more likely a voter is to take seriously racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-science, religiously fanatical, etc etc candidates.”)
Susan BrianteNovember 2011
(“… a new confessional—an economic confessional. What’s in your bank account, Poet? Who paid for your down payment? What do you owe? …we have to locate our place in an economic continuum before we can honestly define our needs, understand the needs of others, activate our sympathies, act for change.”)
Anne GorrickNovember 2011
(“The Great Recession set up a situation where I can say ‘yes’ to many, many things that make my own work bigger.”)
j/j hastainNovember 2011
(“This is a pledge to ever couple with and to never cripple.”)
Karen LlagasNovember 2011
(“”Let no one say / it’s just about the money, / that slender, / grief-stricken thing, / so thirsty for company”)
Barbara Jane ReyesNovember 2011
(“…surviving this recession as an artist requires that artists do away with a sense of entitlement…”)
Leny M. StrobelNovember 2011
(“Decolonization is not just for the post-colonial subject anymore.”)
Eileen R. TabiosNovember 2011
(“Gold for Poetry….I consider Poetry to be priceless.”)
Dee ThompsonNovember 2011
(“Who is not comforted by eggs and cheese?”)
Elizabeth TreadwellNovember 2011
(“male dominance obscures / the true contributions of men.”)
Erin VirgilNovember 2011
(“Babies never made me sad before.”)
Harriet Zinnes November 2011
(“There are no outcasts in history. / We are all in its throes.”)
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