Life in the margins

"The mathematics of our lives, the practice runs that make up what we offer the public as real, are proven in the margins. We whisper there, perfecting what we want others to hear, often editing out truth. And yes, we dream there... Women writers have practiced our craft from the outskirts. Our lenses have been aimed at the public spaces which have marginalized our voices....To find ourselves we hold up a mirror to the worlds we all inhabit."

(from "Foreword: From the Margin to the Page" by Suheir Hammad, in Word. On Being a [Woman] Writer, edited by Jocelyn Burrell)

--Submitted by Beth Blevins.