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Winter is roaring and so is *VIDA* *Reads with Writers*
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interviews with writers we love about the books they’re reading now,
writers they can’t stop reading, what they can’t wait to read next, which
of their own projects we can look forward to on the horizon, and more.


   -          Discover which parallels *Krystal Languel *found between
   Muriel Rukeyser’s novel,*Savage Coast,* and the 2015 attacks in Paris,
   and which book about Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes that she found “RIVETING!”
   Languel adds, “I’m going to write [the author] a fan letter! That’s how
   awesome.” CONT’D--
   https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.vidaweb.org_vida-2Dreads-2Dwith-2Dwriters-2Dkrystal-2Dlanguell_&d=BQIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=Oo4TCJF8pXcsWPDC7Sy8bdP2IJ6ZbST0v2xdYtuNH80&m=ToKXVKVVhJmreQ4egvcz_RkQyShDI_EdRaajD4Hc2ZM&s=HmYQEZXNWIMB2clpy4ae2g2DK3OazrSFbQrko6DfJsg&e= 
   -         *Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib *writes that he “learned to write at
   the feet of a lot of black women.” Find out whose words he returns to time
   and again—Josephine Baker is among them—and the “incredible trifecta of
   poetry books” he’s reading now. CONT’D--
   https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.vidaweb.org_vida-2Dreads-2Dwith-2Dwriters-2Dhanif-2Dwillis-2Dabdurraqib_&d=BQIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=Oo4TCJF8pXcsWPDC7Sy8bdP2IJ6ZbST0v2xdYtuNH80&m=ToKXVKVVhJmreQ4egvcz_RkQyShDI_EdRaajD4Hc2ZM&s=XvySI4NsAfugt9eSWCMx6UWYn210rEZedamYdoI3Vok&e= 
   -         Ever wonder which book *Wendy C. Ortiz* keeps on her night
   table? Ortiz says that we can look out for her book, *Bruja*, and how
   her tumblr notebook and “its revisions and new incarnations” might feed
   into her next project. CONT’D--
   https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.vidaweb.org_vida-2Dreads-2Dwith-2Dwriters-2Dwendy-2Dc-2Dortiz_&d=BQIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=Oo4TCJF8pXcsWPDC7Sy8bdP2IJ6ZbST0v2xdYtuNH80&m=ToKXVKVVhJmreQ4egvcz_RkQyShDI_EdRaajD4Hc2ZM&s=zt3HAyfnTt_n_T5VqeFN8JgEYgAP755PPjeEBILnOiw&e= 
   -         *Amber Atiya* has a great list of books of the moment and
   books that remain, and she assures us that on her own horizon, “There’s
   definitely a full-length manuscript brewing, but, really, I’m just writing
   and writing and reading, trying to stay sane, taking it one day at a time.”
   Good advice for us all! CONT’D--
   https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.vidaweb.org_vida-2Dreads-2Dwith-2Dwriters_&d=BQIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=Oo4TCJF8pXcsWPDC7Sy8bdP2IJ6ZbST0v2xdYtuNH80&m=ToKXVKVVhJmreQ4egvcz_RkQyShDI_EdRaajD4Hc2ZM&s=Cy_5QU_atOGf7Xm3paE19W-ri_N2lIvmfgk9QfGBznQ&e= 
   -          Find out which read* Kima Jones *calls “one of the best
   decisions I’ve made this year,” and which Toni Morrison novel she reads
   annually before her birthday, and which Edwidge Danticat book she reads
   before every New Year. CONT’D--
   https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.vidaweb.org_vida-2Dreads-2Dwith-2Dwriters-2Dkima-2Djones_&d=BQIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=Oo4TCJF8pXcsWPDC7Sy8bdP2IJ6ZbST0v2xdYtuNH80&m=ToKXVKVVhJmreQ4egvcz_RkQyShDI_EdRaajD4Hc2ZM&s=4EWfVkn0kRTxl1fQ9ydW5VsGYj8nowCv8dAaezDK1Qo&e= 

Keep an eye out for more from this column because we have *many more VIDA
Reads with Writers *to share!


In* Melissa Studdard’s *other new column, *VIDA Voices and Views
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interviews *poet and editor, Don Share*, in part one of a two-part
interview. “In this segment, Share reads his poem ‘Food for Thought’ from
the collection *Squandermania* and discusses topics ranging the power of
the imagination to effect change in the world to Poetry magazine’s open
door policy to language’s complicity in the mania for squandering
resources.” You’ll want to watch it!https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.vidaweb.org_don-2Dshare_&d=BQIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=Oo4TCJF8pXcsWPDC7Sy8bdP2IJ6ZbST0v2xdYtuNH80&m=ToKXVKVVhJmreQ4egvcz_RkQyShDI_EdRaajD4Hc2ZM&s=pIXHgyH56AGzT80RnCCX6Lw89RUj8kCeqXuTryNRMNo&e= 



*What’s hot right now—*


 *A List of Women-Run Presses*

“This list exists because I went looking for this resource and couldn’t
find it…”

–Kate Angus

We are delighted to have this running *Women-Founded &/or Primarily
Female-Run Book Presses, Organizations, & Literary Magazines
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you’ll peruse them and discover new and old loves, and *we hope you will
help us expand the list*. Please submit further women-founded and/or
female-run presses to our VIDA Resources here:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.vidaweb.org_submit-2Da-2Dresource_&d=BQIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=Oo4TCJF8pXcsWPDC7Sy8bdP2IJ6ZbST0v2xdYtuNH80&m=ToKXVKVVhJmreQ4egvcz_RkQyShDI_EdRaajD4Hc2ZM&s=uuDpTh8wfn5u_I0urluGIKvgcWLji0Jzkipu1mHkJQw&e= . Please send additional presses,
organizations, and literary magazines to include in this list to Olivia
Postelli [log in to unmask], and please remember to include the full name
of the organization, contact information, and website link.

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* On Fear, Fearlessness, and Intergenerational Trauma*

“My mother doesn’t dwell in the past, so she smiles and shakes her head
when I ask about her life during the Khmer Rouge regime. Mom, what did you
do? Did you have to work? She shrugs. Her eyes are soft, then perplexed by
my eagerness to bear witness to her story. What story? What do you want to
know? In order to live her life and support me and my brother, she
explains, it is necessary to move on. Forget the past. Don’t think about
it. But I am not like her. I can’t forget the past and I always think about
it. Yet, my mother seems to evade my questions on every rare visit home.
Sometimes I give up asking. Her silence around her personal history often
leaves me with doubts on how to begin telling my own.

—

I experience fears in my writing; in school, I would withhold certain poems
from workshop, afraid that my classmates wouldn’t know how to respond to
the history behind my vulnerability, afraid that I would have to explain
stories already so marginalized only to discover that my words, after
speaking them aloud, didn’t hold space with others.” –Monica Sok

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 *Report from the Field: Racial Invisibility and Erasure in the Writing
Workshop*

“In a novel excerpt I turned into workshop, my narrator uses the word
‘chinky.’ My narrator is a Korean American woman speaking to a successful
Chinese American woman, accusing her of being a sell-out. One of my peers
in the workshop, another woman, white, circled that word—‘chinky’—and wrote
in the margin: ‘Really? Seems too harsh.’ On another page, next to a
description of the narrator expressing anger at impossible beauty
standards, which for Asians can mean looking more white, she wrote: ‘What?!
Wow! Really?’ After class, reading this, seeing the circles and arrows
drawn on the page, I felt a discomfort that I’ve grown too accustomed to, a
feeling that was once paired with shame, later with anger, and now with
annoyance. It’s triggered when I’m confronted with a person who is confused
or surprised that my racial background and immigrant family would make my
experience different from her own, or when a person is surprised or in
disbelief that racism exists, affects people’s lives, or that I think it
shouldn’t be tolerated.” –Lisa Lee

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With preparations for the *2015 VIDA Count gearing up*, we are working hard
to raise funds.*VIDA is 100% volunteer-run* by committed people who believe
in VIDA’s mission and *give their time freely* to make it *happen*. Through
*donations*, *you* enable us to do our work. We appreciate donations of any
amount, so if you would like to *support women in the literary arts*, you
can visit our donate page (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.vidaweb.org_donate-2Dnow_&d=BQIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=Oo4TCJF8pXcsWPDC7Sy8bdP2IJ6ZbST0v2xdYtuNH80&m=ToKXVKVVhJmreQ4egvcz_RkQyShDI_EdRaajD4Hc2ZM&s=a-S0CtxlkxT6fq5eFDM9SsRNRTP4PHIzil5RNTtj8Rc&e= ) and *become
a part of the movement*. Thank you *so* much!

*Call for submissions!* VIDAweb.org <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__vidaweb.org_&d=BQIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=Oo4TCJF8pXcsWPDC7Sy8bdP2IJ6ZbST0v2xdYtuNH80&m=ToKXVKVVhJmreQ4egvcz_RkQyShDI_EdRaajD4Hc2ZM&s=bvWQA0Vz-Mh75So-4puWKR3Fg4j6pVY0QGZFclu8CqM&e= > seeks your
content! Please check our Submission Guidelines here
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[log in to unmask] *We’re looking forward to seeing your best work!*

Thank you!

Amy King
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts


p.s.  *AWP Events - *Send us your feminist, womanist, radical, activist
events - both on & offsite!

VIDA is currently listing events happening during the AWP conference in LA
from March 30-April 2, 2016 on our calendar.

Please send details, including date, time, name/s, location, web links
(when possible), cost (if any), etc. to Amy King at *[log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]> *

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*  2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize -
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*  2015 WNBA Award Recipient -
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