Iowa poetry grad here to say that this was exactly my experience; I never knew if my poetry was valued by my male professors, or if I was simply paid more attention because of my sexuality. I unfortunately got the short end of the stick with the one female poet I had workshop with, too, as she was a hack and very much…

When I was 20, I was working at a bookstore and living with my boyfriend, who also worked at the same bookstore. It was a small bookstore, with only 7 employees and when the holiday party rolled around we all went to a bar in Montouk and proceeded to get ripped. I had lost track of my boyfriend and started to make out…

I was scared until I got to the part about a basement in Louisiana. Pffft....