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 ...

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

VANESSA PLACE

A Trumpist Manifesto

A poem by Vanessa Place on Trumpism...

POLITICS

POETRY

Radio Hour: Debating Vanessa Place's 'Gone with the Wind' Controversy

A Court of Law, Not of Justice