Writing is an act of patient endurance; it is a spiritual pursuit, and curiosity is the god that oversees it all. Paisley Rekdal
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An infamous prison farm. A great river in flood. A mysterious religious colony. Through them all, 13-year- old Samuel searches for his father in a Father Quest of antiquity updated to early-20th c. Mississippi.
#PitBLK #A #Litfic
ALT A four panel collage of photos. Starting in the upper left: two Black men in prison garb working outdoors; a river flooding a small wooden house in the distance; a small Black child smiling joyously with hands in front at shoulder level; and the silhouette of a man on a hill walking from right to left atop a hill while holding reins with dramatic clouds in the background.
This seems like both a wise and a compassionate approach.
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@jerichobrown’s Craft Talk! Tonight!
Poetry As Survival: A Reading of Langston Hughes’s Suicide Note
April 11th, 6:30 pm EST Virtual
Open to all. Free for Tribe. twhpoetry.submittable.com
Here’s a #2MinLineBreak of “Duplex: Cento.”
#crafttalk #twhtribe #twhpoetry #napowrimo
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We are so thrilled for our author @arugulaada, winner of a 2024 Whiting Award for Fiction for her debut collection THE SORROWS OF OTHERS. And a huge congratulations to this phenomenal group of winners 🎉💛
Congratulations to @arugulaada, winner of a 2024 Whiting Award for Fiction! whiting.org/awards/winners/a…
I'm not seeing how this was implied. What am I missing? It's been a long day. Maybe I'm just tired, hence my reading comprehension is low right now?
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Congratulations, Ada! @aru
Congratulations to @arugulaada, winner of a 2024 Whiting Award for Fiction! whiting.org/awards/winners/a…
How come this discourse about whether a poet is any good never involves a prominent male poet?
This is the best piece I've read so far on the whole Mary Oliver discussion (actually, surprisingly, not a poet I knew at all apart from a single poem before the last week or two). commonreader.co.uk/p/is-mary…
Trying something new with a story. I don't know whether it's really good or really bad. Very unlikely that it's in the middle. I guess I'll know once I put it away for a couple of months. Writing is weird.
What's heaven?
Heaven is finding an old NYer in your bookshelf containing an Edward P. Jones story you haven't read yet.
Got some cash for snacks for kids learning in juvenile detention?
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Billionaire hedge fund investor Bill Ackman was among the most vociferous and morally preening critics of Harvard President Claudine Gay. He lambasted her for failing to take antisemitism seriously. 1/x
The amount of homophobia surfacing in the Black community, particularly among lovers of hip-hop, surrounding the Diddy stories is staggering.
Discussions of alleged abuse of power is one thing. You don't need to mix in homophobia with it.
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I'm grateful to everyone who has either shared, donated or mentioned it to someone else. I deeply appreciate it. I'm currently on $633 out of the $5100 goal.
I'd appreciate your donations and sharing. Thank you. 🤲
I'm grateful to the community for the help so far.
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Don’t forget to be kind, babies. We only have each other. #Kurtvonnegut #InspirationalQuotes
Seeing the stark difference between the average number of fertility days for men and women in a lifetime really puts the greater burden that women typically carry for birth control (or fertility management) in perspective.
Sharing the Burden
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The Latino Racial Justice Circle is raising money to support the families of the 6 victims of the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse, immigrants who were supporting partners and children in the Southeast Baltimore and Dundalk communities. gofundme.com/f/support-for-f…
I have a vision of a group called the Metheny Mays. Lyle Mays was such an integral part of the Pat Metheny Group that the name feels like if the Beatles had been called The John Lennon Band. Just feels unbalanced.
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This note seemed too personal at first, but on second thought, it seems very practical, though a rather elite problem to have... chronicle.com/article/speaki… ... philosopherscocoon.typepad.c… ... hbr.org/2018/05/how-much-sho…
