Please enjoy my full-page Adrienne Rich essay in the latest issue of the Indypendent!
This piece is very special to me, not just because Rich is one of my role models, but also because it allows me to graft
two branches of my writing/editing career. I was a member of the Indypendent editorial collective from 2001 to 2003, working on nearly every aspect of bringing the paper to life: developing content; writing, researching and soliciting pieces; editing; and of course proofreading the whole thing meticulously. And from 1999 to 2007, I did much of the same work as an editorial collective member (and poetry editor from 2005-07) of Bridges: a Jewish Feminist Journal, co-founded in 1990 by Adrienne Rich. It’s an honor to bring these two projects together.


In the early hours of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, I was asleep on Amtrak, traveling down the Hudson after a long weekend at my parents’ place near Albany, going back to my home in New York.
Why do we speculate on the love lives of puppets? Because it tells us so much about ourselves.
And I’ll be commemorating what would have been Hunt’s 60th birthday with a public event later this month!