WILLA: Women in Letters & Literary Arts recently launched its website. As outlined in its mission statement, “WILLA seeks to explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women through meaningful conversation and the exchange of ideas among existing and emerging literary communities.” Apropos Christian Bök’s recent postconcerning the rejection of an AWP panel proposal featuring the University of Calgary’s Creative Writing program where Bök teaches, WILLA similarly arose from a rejected panel entitled “Arsenic Icing: Sentiment as Threat in Contemporary American Women’s Poetry” that poet Cate Marvin proposed for AWP’s annual conference.

Read more of this post by  Alan Gilbert on The Poetry Foundations blog, Harriet.