A’Kala Chaires Isn’t Scared Of ‘Breaking Down & Going Outside The Lines’
“It’s not the mistake that matters, it’s how you come back from that.”
“It’s not the mistake that matters, it’s how you come back from that.”
Her Mouth A Door, After Which / There Is Another Door
Queer people love slam poetry so much because it’s just like us.
Lesbian poets are writing and fighting the white male canon while producing amazing works of art.
“I don’t know who I am and write it down. I write and then know who I am.”
“I came out to myself through poetry–from abstract metaphors about Angelina Jolie to, eventually, poems where I used female pronouns without flinching.”
Ruminations on a new biopic about poet and queer icon Emily Dickinson.