It’s been six months since Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013) was released. So, what’s been going on?

WWR poets have been featured in journals, blogs, and newspapers. These features have included WWR poems, mini-interviews, and stories by several of the poets. I’ve also had the opportunity to talk about WWR in interviews.

“On the Revolutionary and Transformative Effects of Poetry: A Five Part Interview Series with Five Poets from Women Write Resistance” in Les Femmes Folles with WWR poets Rebecca Foust, Gaynell Gavin, Jane Satterfield, Ellin Sarot, and Alexis Krasilosky.

 

Interview on “Friday Live” at the Mill with Marge Saiser and Wendy Jane Bantam on NET radio by William Stibor. (starts 26:50, or 28:23).

 

A Women Write Resistance feature in Menacing Hedge, with interviews with WWR poets Kathleen Aguero, Elliott BatTzedek, Ann Bracken, and Maria Luisa Arroyo and their poems from the anthology.

 

“Poetry Crush Special Feature: Women Write Resistance” in Poetry Crush. The feature includes interviews with WWR poets Dawn McGuire, Billie Tadros, Nicole Hospital-Medenia, and Angele Ellis.

 

A feature by Shelby Fleig “UNL lecturer Laura Wiseman curates collection of women’s ‘resistance’ poetry” in the Daily Nebraskan. The feature includes interviews with other WWR poets Deborah McGinn, Lucy Adkins, and Marjorie Saiser.

 

Interview with The Nebraska Girls Lit Hour on the letterpress books Farm Hands and Unclose the Door, the full-length book Sprung, and the anthology Women Write Resistance.

 

An excerpt from Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence in Extract(s).

WWR has been reviewed.

A review of Women Write Resistance in Broad Blogs by Georgia Platts.

 

A review of Women Write Resistance by Grace Cavalieri “May Exemplars” in Washington Independent Review of Books.

 

A review of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence by Sally Deskins in Les Femmes Folles.

Several WWR readings have taken place in New York City, Philly, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Nebraska, with more to come in Nebraska, California, and elsewhere.

As such, recordings of recent WWR events are on YouTube and photos have been posted to facebook and twitter.

One WWR poet, Angele Ellis, made a video poem of her WWR piece.

WWR is also in public libraries, thanks to the work of several WWR poets. Copies of WWR have been donated to women’s shelters and crisis centers.

And finally, WWR has raised money for three organizations that seek to end gender violence and violence against women.

What’s next? More WWR features, interviews, and reviews are in press and/or in the works. There’s also more WWR readings taking place in the next few months.

Finally as editor, I’m so honored to know and work with such amazing poets. I’ve had much support from WWR contributors, editors, designers, writers, poets, and friends in the production and promotion of this anthology. Their work continues to inspire me. It is my hope and the hope of this anthology that when women write resistance their work resists gender violence, changes culture, and makes the world a little better place for us all.