After years of silence, Verity La returns. This is our first issue since the journal’s Managing Editor, Michele Seminara, endured a cancellation at the hands of activists. What followed was social …
Griftivism (Michele Seminara)
My first exposure to what I now call “griftivism,” a hybrid of grifting and Critical Social Justice activism, occurred in the arts. It was 2020 when—in my role as managing …
An Interview With Saddiq Dzukogi: Your Crib, My Qibla
Saddiq Dzukogi with Verity La Poetry Editors Michele Seminara and Robbie Coburn Wineglass When your mother found strands of your hair hung up in the teeth of your comb, your …
Adieu to 2020
Well I think we can all agree that 2020 has been quite the ride (and that’s putting it nicely!) This year has presented everyone — without exception — with challenges …
Michele Seminara Launches Sara Dowse’s WEST BLOCK
Buy West Block online from For Pity Sake Publishing An Except From West Block FROM CASSIE ARMSTRONG’S DIARY 9 December 1977 I took one last look at night. It was …
Spirit of Self Expression 2020 Live Poetry Reading
The 2020 Spirit of Self Expression poetry reading took place on 27 September at Manly Art Gallery & Museum. The event featured 22 works by a broad and exciting range …
EMBODY & GRIEF FOR HIRE
Launch of Verity La Anthology No. 2 EMBODY What does it mean to be embodied in human or animal form? How does our body — its size, colour, race, gender, …
Over And Out (For Now)
As the country burns and our arts sector crumbles, Verity La powers (well, maybe limps) to its finish line. How good is Australia, ay? But let’s not be downtrodden. When …
OUT OF THE VOID: Voices from Detention (Yasaman Bagheri and Farhad Bandesh )
(Curated by Saba Vasefi) When the moon is the only light in a home you haven’t known, you feel separated from your swan-song language.The moment of standing on a precipice …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 14: Disrupting the (Dis)Ableist Narrative
QPF 2019: In this episode of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Verity La Managing Editor Michele Seminara is joined at the 2019 Queensland Poetry Festival by poet Andy Jackson and …