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Writing and Reading While Black. Lessons learned.. ANOTHER essay about writing (this one by Shannon Barber) that was incredibly interesting. Please read this. REALLY good.

I sometimes find writers talking about writing a little dull. This essay is very different, and I highly recommend it. (I also highly recommend “Bear in Contradicting Landscape” in The Book of Apex, Vol. 4. Some of my favorite bits: I wrote “Bear” when I was living in Chicago, making frequent trips along the BlueContinue reading “Dave Schwartz on “Bear in Contradicting Landscape.””

Yes. This is extremely correct. Hats off to you, good sir!

I just waited at the bus stop and then sat on the bus with a 94-year-old man who marched in Alabama with his daughters during the Civil Rights movement. He believes in experiential education. His daughter was just quoted in the New York Times as an expert on skyscrapers and he’s very proud. He’s aContinue reading “Maybe I’m glad I couldn’t bike today.”

Hello, folks! I am now an internationally-published poet. Yep! I tried my hand at poetry comics and now I’m part of an all-poetry comics issue of Snakeskin Magazine. Check it! You can read just my poetry comic by clicking on the image here, but I’d recommend checking out the whole issue (linked above) to getContinue reading “Poetry Comic!”

I posted this on Facebook a few days ago, and it appears to be true: I do not have MS! Folks posted a bunch of questions so I’m writing a longer blog entry to explain some stuff. Executive Summary I definitely don’t have MS! I have no idea what’s wrong with me, though! I amContinue reading “Luckiest girl in the world”

At my polling place this evening, I saw a mother voting with a very young daughter in her lap. “Can you say ‘vote?’” She asked the baby. “Can you say ‘voice?’” Her 18-month-old daughter, clearly not in favor of a peaceful democracy, kept vigorously trying to grab her mother’s pen, thereby preventing her from exercisingContinue reading “Power”

Thinking of all of my dead tonight, but especially and always my dad and my Granddad Copley, who just died this year. The Irish believe that this night of all nights our honored dead can walk, sit, eat among us. May your meetings be peaceful. (And don’t forget to put a bent pin in yourContinue reading “Oíche Shamhna”