Posts by: Virginia Konchan

A Home at the End

Sep, 2022 | by

On the liminal thresholds that echo our long pilgrimages and our returns.

Subject to Change: On Not Having, or Being, it All

Sep, 2019 | by

The word queer has gone through many transformations since it emerged in the 16th century. Originally, it meant “strange,” or “peculiar”: associated meanings included a feeling of unwellness or something…

The Tiniest Ark: Jennifer Moore’s The Veronica Maneuver

Jan, 2016 | by

You never enter the same river twice, according to Heraclitus. Likewise, in Jennifer Moore’s debut collection, The Veronica Maneuver, you never enter the same poem twice—or at least, thanks to…

Neo-Confessionalism:
Whose Commodity Am I, Anyway?

May, 2013 | by

“We danced until we became markets.”  —Bhanu Kapil Owning one’s intellectual property, one’s body, and one’s subjectivity may seem like a triumvirate fait accompli for contemporary women writers. Western women in…