May 2013
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Listen
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25 Rare Photos of Famous Authors →
Yeah, because we all want to see what writers look like, right?
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The Document: an Open Letter From San Jose State... →
“We believe the purchasing of online and blended courses is not driven by concerns about pedagogy, but by an effort to restructure the U.S. university system.”
April 2013
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12 ideas on how to stay sane in Boston
ccindecision:
Hopefully the situation will be resolved shortly, but if you’re a Bostonian who’s being forced to remain indoors, here’s some thing you can do to pass the time:
1-5. Stay Safe.
6. Google pictures of Dunkin’ Donuts. You’ll be able to get Dunkie’s soon. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images/Getty Images News)
7. Gather your family and reenact the 2007 World Series. (Photo by...
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Mulatto by Langston Hughes
I, like many, came to Langston Hughes through his poetry. As a kid, the first poem we learned in school by him was “Dream Boogie.” What I learned next was either “Harlem” or “Mother to Son.” I remember learning about his poetry in music class, in English, in theater, in history. It was not until years later when I learned he, too, was a playwright. I read his short plays about Simple, a simple...
NAP HYPE: NAP BOOK GIVEAWAY - REBLOG to ENTER →
naphypelabs:
naphypelabs:
NAP has too many books, chapbooks, and lit mags.
NAP thinks it is unhealthy for books to sit on a shelf and not be read.
NAP thinks maybe one of you will want to read these books.
NAP is going to give away a medium flat rate priority box full of books. (Winner must live in the United States)
One winner will be selected at random on MAY 1 2013 @ 12:01 am EST
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30 Ways to Celebrate →
From the Academy of American Poets
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“The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript
Sway in the wind like a field of...”
– T. S. Eliot, “The Boston Evening Transcript”
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jack hughes →
I like this guy’s stuff.
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CoverSpy →
I like this blog.
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“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me… . The pieces I am, she gather...”
– a definition of love from Toni Morrison’s Beloved
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“The telephone poles looked like crucifixes. I had the time to contemplate them,...”
– NEW STORY POSTED: “Tiger Free Days” by DeMisty D. Bellinger. WhiskeyPaper, March 2013. (via whiskeypaper)
March 2013
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NYT's Achebe Obituary →
“Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior.”
February 2013
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“Do it every day for a while… . Do it as you would do scales on the piano....”
– Kenneth Lamott, as quoted by Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird
“If you find my long sentences annoying, please know that that gives me an...”
– Jamaica Kincaid, from Monday night’s live Writers at Work interview at 92nd Street Y. (via theparisreview)
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Writing Toolbox
I have a folder on my Mozilla toolbar called ‘writing.’ It is a catchall for all things I consider helpful to my writing—odd dictionaries, pictures of art work, pictures, essays on the craft of writing. If I never looked in this folder again, that’s fine. If I do, that’s fine, too. I like electronic folders because they are so much like real folders. More like shoe...
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On Suck on the Marrow
Suck on the Marrow by Camille Dungy My rating: 3 of 5 stars I had a hard time getting into Suck on the Marrow. I’m not sure if this is because it’s a difficult subject or that I did not feel invested with Joseph Freeman, our first character in this cycle. I kept picking the book up and putting it down again. The second section, which follows Molly and Todd, picks up considerably in...
January 2013
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“All of the books will be connected somehow—by history and blood and by something...”
– Louise Erdrich on her own books, but I like to think all books are connected in some way. All the good books. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6055/the-art-of-fiction-no-208-louise-erdrich
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Watch“I always think art is a tool to set up new questions to create a basic structure which can be open to possibilities.” Ai Weiwei
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Happy Birthday, Dr. King
If Dr. King were alive today, he’d be my grandmother’s age. He’d see the son of a white woman and an African man in the White House. He’d find that there have been black women and women in general as high up in the command ladder as Lt. Uhura. He’d find that some of most famous intellectuals are black and/or of color. He’d find a country where minority is by...
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Arbitrary Haiku Day Is Here! →
Here are some haiku I shared:
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Snow pock marked by rain
Cool, not cold, not late, near gray
And no longer day
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For M.
My sweet cuddlebug
—with his eyes and with my lips,
You became your own.
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For A.
Your anger and staidness—
My intensely happy child
Grabs me into you
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Textbook Review: Feminist Literary Theory and...
Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader by Sandra M. Gilbert My rating: 3 of 5 stars A rather comprehensive anthology that covers very early women-centered thought to the present day. There are obscure names and texts and the renowned, such as Woolf’s “A Room of Her Own” and Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Some...
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“The woman artist has to fuse creation and life in her own way, or in her own...”
– Anaïs Nin, Diaries
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Arbitrary Haiku Day →
Come. Post. 5.7.5. All on January 10, 2013.
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Just in Case You Didn't See It, Fighting Words... →
sarahmonster213 asked: Hey, I tagged you in a question thingy.I'll try and tag you in it, so just look up your name, but if you can't find it, it's on my blog. Ignore or answer as you will. :) (I'm still working on post, so it might be a minute).
December 2012
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Common References for Magazine Writers & Editors
Admittedly, this was not one of my best semesters teaching—that is, I didn’t think so, but many students responded well—but I did get to do this year what I didn’t do last year: create a short bibliography to give to my magazine students with the common texts I use. And to continue that good thing, I’m sharing the bibliography with you. Keep in mind this list was...
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Three because It's Good Escapism
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire My rating: 3 of 5 stars I went into it knowing that the Wicked Witch of the West will be presented in a more sympathetic light. And she was. She was complicated in that she couldn’t definitively understand herself, her self, her universe, et cetera. She, sometimes, seemed the true existentialist. At other times,...
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Iron Horse, Mad! Mad at Duotrope! Iron Horse...
Iron Horse is free to complain and to tally its numbers, but they should know (and probably do) that Duotrope’s numbers are aggregated from users’ submission updates. I hope all folks involve work this out to be a kinder, gentler writing community!
