Just devoured bell hooks's memoir Wounds of Passion. Every once in a while, I need a jolt of poet energy to remind me why I've never been able to give up stanza breaks. The relationship between work and the rest of writers' lives in difficult to embody, and more difficult to elucidate. hooks presents these relationships… Continue reading bell
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#NaPoWriMo
In preparation for the inception of NaPoWriMo--an intense thirty-day poetry binge for those of us paralyzed by fears of audience, topic, detail, and ourselves--we discuss why anyone would put themselves through the torturous process of writing a bad poem draft every single day. The answer? Lots of wine. It's almost April, which means baby animals, Earth… Continue reading #NaPoWriMo
Grad
So as you know if you follow my every move via social media, I got a big fat rejection email from the grad program I applied to at the University of Washington. While part of me is surprised--the honors-graduating, essay-planning, highlighter-toting part of me--in many ways, I expected it. My application was viciously progressive, and… Continue reading Grad
Hipster Lit
Another from the series of Juniper Bends Author Collective posts--this time, I reflect on millenial literature and reveal my inner grandma. Yesterday, after getting off of work to a rainy afternoon, I sat in my blue reading chair and polished off the entirety of Tao Lin's Shoplifting from American Apparel. I was left with a sole… Continue reading Hipster Lit
Review
Just wrote a really mean review of Alison Bechdel's latest book on Goodreads. I feel kind of bad. I'm sharing it here anyway. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel My rating: 2 of 5 stars Very sad to give two stars to Alison Bechdel's anything, but this book was tedium incarnate. Things to keep:… Continue reading Review
Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2013 | Autostraddle
Adding these to my to-read queue. Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2013 | Autostraddle.
The Weekly Ansible, 50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read by China Mieville
Political science fiction! The Weekly Ansible, 50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read by China Mieville.
Why Teach and Study English? : The New Yorker
Another response to the policing of humanities: The irony of neo-conservatives challenging institutions is that they fetishize many other kinds of institutions. You know, the kinds that lock people up. Why Teach and Study English? : The New Yorker. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The [hu]man who never reads lives only… Continue reading Why Teach and Study English? : The New Yorker
“50 Books” – Flavorwire
50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature – Flavorwire. Another interesting list from Flavorwire on literature. This one includes my writer-crush Kate Zambreno's Heroines and Sheila Heti's How Should A Person Be? (which I obsessively gobbled up in two days, but everyone in the universe still loves to hate), so I forgive some of their… Continue reading “50 Books” – Flavorwire
50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers
Some goodies! I love difficult literature.
Jesse Rice-Evans 