Tag: VIDA
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My Report from the Field at VIDA; Women in the Literary Arts
There is a cruel lie in Ireland, that women poets’ and writers’ absence from our cultural narrative, and by extension from the imaginative creation of the state, is based on their invisibility within the literary canon. That lie is based in the failure of academia to contextualize and historicize the place of women literary […]
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Looking at how the media presented the Oxford Professor of Poetry Election for VIDA !
There is an interest for women poets in how media presents electoral processes like the recent Oxford Professor of Poetry appointment. Just as there is an interest in how media views poetry generally. “I would like to see something different at the next election. I would like to see the media discussing women poets and […]
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‘There are less Wikipedia articles on women poets than pornographic actresses’ James Gleick
“There are less Wikipedia articles on women poets than pornographic actresses.” The above quotation is derived from Wikipedia’s Women Problem written by James Gleick at the New York Review of Books made during this last week. It interests me as it is embedded in article about the sub-categorisation of American women novelists, an ongoing row […]
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The Count 2010, VIDA data for publishing women in literary magazines
“The TLS is only interested in getting the best reviews of the most important books,” and “while women are heavy readers, we know they are heavy readers of the kind of fiction that is not likely to be reviewed in the pages of the TLS.“ (Peter Stothard, making his own importance) So are Newspaper literary […]
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Anne Hays, a letter to the New Yorker Magazine.
The following letter by Anne Hays was published on Facebook on January 2nd 2011, and since it is a day for correspondences , I thought to link it herein. Thus far the letter has had 31 likes, numerous replies, and is linked onto Twitter via VIDA, women in the literary arts. January 2nd, 2011 The […]