Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
Carmilla’s Kindred: The Vampiress in Verse
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
REVIEW: Arrive In My Hands: Queer Erotic Comics is Poetic Magic
In recent years, indie comic readers have been gifted with more and more works, from short autobiographical comics to webcomics and zines to anthologies with the erotic in mind. More comics and comic-related reading material crowdfunded, printed out for conventions, and uploaded online exploring not just queer identities but queer desire and queer liberation. This…
INTERVIEW: Wendy Chin-Tanner on Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology
Poetry is Wendy Chin-Tanner’s first love. In her own poetic work, she calls on the influences of poets such as Audre Lorde, Ai, Sylvia Plath, Vera Pavlova, and Lorine Niedecker. For A Wave New World’s Chin-Tanner, poets are a kind of literary world superhero, because, she says, “they’re always trying to do the impossible —…
Poems to See By Reminded Me of My Love for Poetry
24 classic poems get the graphic novel treatment in Poems to See by—this is poetry like you’ve never envisioned it before. Writer and artist Julian Peters visualizes the words of poets in myriad ways, making this book quite the page-turner.
Dogears: Poets and Dreamers Rule All Possible Worlds
In a world filled with far too many great books, it’s hard to figure out what to pick up next. Luckily, Bookmarked is here to help in your search with “Dogears,” bite-sized book reviews from our growing TBR piles. Check out what we’ve been reading this past month, and see if you can find your next…
Book Beat: More Poetic Plagiarism, U.K. Publishing’s Code of Conduct, and A Phone Call Dispute
Hello lovely readers! This is your Bookmarked editor Paige, here to share all the latest publishing news in this week’s Book Beat. Admittedly, it was a little difficult finding news that wasn’t a Top Books of 2018 list. The holiday season is upon us, so the news cycle has started to slow down. Between that…
Book Beat: Forest of Reading Nominees, Frankfurt Book Fair Recap, and “There’s a Poem For That!”
Hello all, Emily here! I’ve recently returned from a trip where I had limited internet, so I’ve been scrolling Twitter and checking all my favourite book and bookish sites, including this one, to get caught up on everything I missed. Luckily for me, Paige and Christa held down the Book Beat fort, and now it’s…
Book Beat: B&N Lawsuit, Eyewear Publishing Trouble, and Small Fry
Hello lovely readers, and welcome to Book Beat! It’s your Bookmarked editor Paige, delving into some very exciting news from the publishing industry. Well, exciting might not be the right word for it. Vacation is over, and so the quiet summer months have been replaced with a fresh, crisp veneer of controversy. It’s not too…
Game Enjambment: [i’ve been thinking about DETERMINATION] (Undertale)
Game Enjambment is a reoccurring poetry series on games and gaming. This poem is an exploration into the themes of Undertale. What makes us human? What does it mean to be a “human?” Am I human? Are you?
Game Enjambment: Waking Up in the Nexus [GIF] (Yume Nikki)
Game Enjambment is a reoccurring poetry series on games and gaming. The inspiration for this poem stems from Yume Nikki, a surrealist Japanese game about a young girl, Madotsuki, who may be dealing with depression and anxiety. Surrealism, as a style, often relies on manifesting images from our subconscious in order to interpret the self….
Zine Review: Hidden Expressions: Volume II
When no one will listen to your voice, you must make them listen. A fundamental part of zine and DIY culture is that it provides a space for marginalized people to meet others like them and be heard. While self-publishing comes with its own hurdles—many of them financial—zines are special because even if the paper…