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sprained & rotten thoughts
Checking in this week after being absent last week due to spraining my ankle while going downstairs doing the laundry. Been describing my foot as looking like rotten meat. Like, Charles Baudelaire would’ve written about it rotten. Like, Upton Sinclair would’ve seen in it a metaphor to use in The Jungle rotten. But I’m back […]
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Pangyrus virtual reading!
Just a quick post to share an upcoming virtual reading I’ll be participating in: Join Pam Painter, Joelle Fraser, Ryane Nicole Granados, Artress Bethany White, and myself as we celebrate the release of Pangyrus eight! Pangyrus Literary Magazine’s 8th issue launches with this reading on Thursday, March 11 at 7:30pm EST. I’m grateful to be […]
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survival & understanding
It’s been wild y’all. Some minor emergencies. Some heavy conversations in and out of the classroom and mentoring spaces that I work in. The thread continues to be survival and understanding, in that order. These themes run through Dash Harris’ “No, I’m Not a Proud Latina” which I taught this week. This article, which calls […]
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writer feature: Saddiq Dzukogi
This week I’m delighted to feature friend and poet Saddiq Dzukogi whose book, Your Crib, My Qibla, is currently available for pre-order from University of Nebraska Press. Here’s a bit about the book: Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In […]
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viscacha vibes & recent pubs
Meet my new friend, the viscacha. He’s got a look that is simultaneously wise, weary, and worked-over. While I can’t claim to be wise, I am definitely feeling weary and worked over by the world. Introduced this friend to my students this week and one responded with: “What does he hear that we don’t that […]
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in memory: Alfonso M. Gomez
Poetry’s ability to connect with us in essential ways cannot be stressed enough. This is a sentiment I share on a regular basis in my teaching and conversations with writers. As much as I repeat it, I can’t claim it. What I can claim is the evidence that fills my life and the connections my […]
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writing prompt: predictive text
Back to teaching full time this week. Been exciting and inspiring, while at the same time very real. What I mean is that the more I teach, the more I feel myself be more myself. And it’s not a thing I can summon or call forth. The space held in shared open questioning and conversation […]
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what I cannot call hope
Another round-up of thoughts as I’m finding myself consistently and effectively overworked but wanting, needing to connect, to word here: That it’s been hard to hear others speak of hope this week. That it’s been hard to hear others sign off on emails with some reference to vaccines being “on their way!” As if they […]
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brief dispatch: sharing is caring
This week has me busy at the Solstice MFA low-residency program’s virtual winter residency. I’m having a lovely time spending time with this great community. The workshops are virtual, but the vibes are all real, ha. Even shared a shape poem exercise I wrote about here a bit ago. Also shared this week: This cool […]
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poetry feature: Lisa Summe
This week I’m excited to share two poems from Lisa Summe’s upcoming collection, Say It Hurts (YesYes Books). This collection is due out on January 15th and is currently available for pre-order. Here’s a brief description of the forthcoming collection: Say It Hurts grapples with queerness, love, grief, masculinity, coming of age, and coming out in […]
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