Well, this is a post I’d never hoped to write, but here we are! Medical abortion is the termination of a pregnancy using two sets of medication — Mifepristone and Misoprostol (also known by brand name Cytotec). These pills are safe and effective to use within the first 10 weeks…

Welcome to my anxiety-driven logbook for the doomsdays. I plan to chronicle current events, their roots in historic events, note political inconsistencies and/or contradictions, and share insights on how to care for one another (ex. abortion pills are not illegal and will be highly difficult to persecute if they become…

“There are all kinds/ of intimate violence” Aricka Foreman writes in Salt Body Shimmer, the title found in one of her poems, “Consent Is A Labyrinth Of Yes.” Such a title threads together the body and the quotidian with the magic of the sea, till the two are inseparable: “when…

How many have heard of the Azores Islands? I hadn’t, until a few months ago when my partner, Y, asked if I’d travel there with his parents. The descriptions were enticing — they’re a group of islands off the coast of Portugal and yet to be bombarded by tourists. There…

Lindsay Lerman, a writer and translator, holds a PhD in Philosophy. Her book, I’m From Nowhere, is an investigation of grief and relationships, impermanence, and the construction and loss of identity. The reader follows Claire as she is unmoored by her husband’s death. …

I have heard of a state called New Jersey. I have seen signs for NJ, but as a New Yorker I’ve had a superiority complex that’s limited me from the wonders of my neighboring state—an uneasy realization since I grew up in the Rust Belt. I’ve heard of the Delaware…

Genevieve Pfeiffer: You write about violence, and pain. One poem, in particular, “A Good Life” stayed with me so that I had to come back to it over and over again. Emotions, experiences, healing — these things can be cyclical and we will come up against certain pains over and…

I recently taught Beyonce’s Lemonade. It was a fabulous class, and the students, as well as the head of my department, really enjoyed it. I made a transcript of the poetry and lyrics in the music video, and if you want you can check it out below. If you need…

Genevieve Pfeiffer: In Sexting Ghosts, you explore and interrogate form — particularly the use of negative space and the use of punctuation. How do you see poetic form as a way to representation and a restructuring of daily life? Joanna C. Valente: Everything exists in a form, humans, animals, poems…