Vanessa Place

Vanessa Place is a poet, critic, and criminal defense attorney, and serves as co-director of Les Figues Press.

Terror Firma: On Lida Yusupova’s “The Scar We Know”
Life is ill-advised. This is funny, in the way of great tragedy, and the other way around. Things happen, never for a reason, rarely for a lesson. And yet we go on, tailoring our weak understandings to fit the brute contingencies ...
Mar 1, 2021
Terror Firma: On Lida Yusupova’s “The Scar We Know”
Life is ill-advised. This is funny, in the way of great tragedy, and the other way around. Things happen, never for a reason, rarely for a lesson. And yet we go on, tailoring our weak understandings to fit the brute contingencies ...
Vanessa PlaceMar 1, 2021
A Trumpist Manifesto
A poem by Vanessa Place on Trumpism...
Jan 15, 2017
- Poetry
- Politics and Economics
A Court of Law, Not of Justice
The law is founded on violence....
Nov 14, 2013

Terror Firma: On Lida Yusupova’s “The Scar We Know”