Bailey Cohen-Vera
Bailey Cohen-Vera cares about words. He is a Wiley Birkhofer Fellow in Poetry at NYU and the founder of Strange Tools, a writer’s workshop program.
Reading List
The World
I thought 50 years ago that I could make a big difference in the world. What I know now is that I will not allow the world to make a big difference in me. -Nikki Giovanni “Beyond [medicine] and beneath it are all the other systems, family race work culture gender money education, and […]
William Walker
In 1855, the owner of the New Orleans Crescent newspaper walked into Nicaragua and declared himself king. By the time a year had passed he had reinstated slavery, declared English the official language of the nation, and restructured its economy to encourage further colonization by the United States. Unfortunately for the new ruler, he made […]