Rah! Rah! Roundup

In exciting literary news this week, Bloof Books announced their 2015 chapbook series, which includes the brillz Khadijah Queen, Ginger Ko, Nikki Wallschlaeger, and more.

Becca Klaver talked about her book LA Liminal, 90s nostalgia and more as Brooklyn Poets’ Poet of the Week, and Jennifer Tamayo’s YOU DA ONE was reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly. JT’s piece from and in response to the Poetry Project event “My Kind of Happening: Short Texts on the Future Nature of the Reading” continues to raise important questions about community and accountability. And Morgan Parker knocks our socks off with her virtual reading for Bruce Covey’s What’s New in Poetry video series on Real Pants.

Thanks in part to hostesses with the mostesses Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, the Golden Globes had no shortage of feminist moments this year. We’ve been following all the discussion this week about Margaret Cho’s performance, and thinking about women comedians and rape jokes in relation to Amy and Tina’s Bill Cosby joke as well as this week’s Broad City Season 2 premiere. And speaking of Broad City, we adore Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer.

This year’s Oscar nominations are overwhelmingly white and male, and Selma director Ava DuVernay did not become the first Black woman nominated in the Best Director category. Well eff ’em, we’re looking for inspiration and validation elsewhere, like this list of incredible Black female directors.

“The greatest lesson you will ever teach us, you won’t even remember.” Holy shit if you haven’t watched this trio of teenage girls’ incredible poetry performance on education, racism, rape, socioeconomic division and more, please do so immediately.

Speaking of teen girls, I literally cannot wait for the film adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl, which premieres at Sundance this year.

We continue to be startled and delighted by all the marking of man-behavior in mainstream media—we’re adding “bro-opted” and “manterrupted” to our lexicon thanks to this TIME post (though we def. don’t appreciate this and other media’s Lean In-y/victim blame-y man-date that women “act like men” to be successful—as Audre Lorde once said, The “man-ster’s tools will never dis-man-tle the man-ster’s house”).

What else was happening this week? Let us know in the comments!