Vanessa Place

Poetry as disturbance, a meditation on conceptual poetry

Posted by Djelloul Marbrook | Jun 2, 2015 | Literary Matters

As an appellate lawyer and conceptual poet Vanessa Place is no stranger to controversy, and it’s...

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On Place, Privilege and the Power of self-awareness

Posted by Grace Jean-Pierre | May 27, 2015 | Creative Nonfiction, Editorials / Op-eds, Race, Culture & Gender

I was in 8th grade when I read Gone with the Wind. The book had a sexy cover: a black-haired,...

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White Noise, Black Mirrors, and the Rising of Self-Appointed Gatekeepers

Posted by Dan Cafaro | May 17, 2015 | Literary Matters, Race, Culture & Gender

I considered writing an essay last month during the Baltimore riots that contained only an...

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