Excited for my latest poetry roundup review at Chapter16.org! Lou Turner, Connie Jordan Green, & Richard Collins embrace TN settings (Nashville, Oak Ridge, & Sewanee). Where better to read up on them than Chapter 16, which covers TN’s literary landscape all year long? chapter16.org/a-beacon-of-...
Toddler yelling up into the library atrium, on an echoing loop: "Why are we here?" Kid, you are the most reasonable creature in this building
If you can get to a theater playing the new Jeff Buckley doc, for god's sake do it.
Pleased to share my latest poetry roundup for Chapter 16! In Stephanie Niu’s I Would Define the Sun, Richard Tillinghast’s Night Train to Memphis, & Abby N. Lewis’s Aquakineticist, the nonhuman world offers potent spaces which alchemize human memory and reflection chapter16.org/the-sanctuar...
On Stevie Wonder’s birthday, here's a piece of mine that dives into his joyful idiosyncratic "Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants." We NEED non-apocalyptic art centering nature!
(For some reason, essay runs twice, back to back. Feel free to read it once)
peauxdunquereview.com/2021/01/stev...
And here's more info about how to support Humanities TN right now:
www.humanitiestennessee.org/support_advo...
I reviewed Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness at Chapter16.org. I want to plug their invaluable work across TN's literary ecosystem, sending book coverage to places it may not otherwise reach. Thru Humanities TN, this program's now threatened, b/c of DOGE. Advocate! chapter16.org/from-the-out...
Thank you to these organizations for fighting for the National Endowment for the Humanities in court! nhalliance.org/nha-statemen...
With Humanities Tennessee under the DOGE knife, I want to call on everyone who has valued the Southern Festival of Books or Chapter16.org, or any other Humanities TN program to help keep this org alive. This page is a great starting place to help: www.humanitiestennessee.org/support_advo...
strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government
Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library.
With Humanities Tennessee under the DOGE knife, I want to call on everyone who has valued the Southern Festival of Books or Chapter16.org, or any other Humanities TN program to help keep this org alive. This page is a great starting place to help: www.humanitiestennessee.org/support_advo...
Great piece about the fallout of the gutting of NEH. Our beloved Humanities TN & Chapter 16 are in imminent danger. www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
DOGE rescinding existing NEH grants guts so many programs that help so many communities for SO LITTLE money. This is a battle worth fighting.
Really glad my review of Tiana Clark's new book got picked up by @nashvillescene.com! You can also read an uncut version at chapter16.org www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
Thrilled share my latest piece for Chapter16.org : “Through smoldering honesty and formal inventiveness, the poems in Tiana Clark’s Scorched Earth insist on foregrounding the rough truths that shake loose during times of upheaval.” chapter16.org/what-the-lon...
Dear Internet, you once showed me useful things but now you won’t stop feeding me vids of people hugging grizzly bears and offering their bare hands to tigers’ mouths. Or showing me two objects and asking which one of them is cake. Why do I offer you my bare hand? We both know you are not the cake
"Stop forcing AI into fucking everything. Nobody asked for it. Everybody hates it."
Please stop with the generative AI. It's garbage, theft, making us less capable. Image by www.nobodyssweetheart.com
Black and white photo of a very serious looking light skinned woman in a long trench-style coat standing in front of a huge flowering bush. She proudly holds up a fluffy medium haired tuxedo tabby cat that looks ginger or grey
I choose to believe they solved crimes. Photo from my collection - no documented date/info.
Breaking: For the second day in a row, the AP reporter on pool duty who tried to attend a POTUS event was blocked from entering the Oval Office. The reporter was there to cover the swearing-in ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard.
Excited to share my review of novelist Geraldine Brooks’ new book Memorial Days, which follows Brooks’ decision to unleash the grief she suppressed after the sudden loss of her husband, writer Tony Horowitz. Moving & tough to put down. Review’s up at Chapter16.org chapter16.org/a-deep-enoug...
“Therefore I shall get on with the daily business of revelation.”
--Theodore Roethke, in a notebook.
With the newest article about Gaiman, I’ll just point out that crowing about having never liked his books is NOT an appropriate reaction.
Echoing calls for folks to take care when it comes to the Neil Gaiman article. Details are harrowing, and they linger. Listened to the podcast back in the summer, and it took ages for me to shake it off.
Spotted this in an obscure corner of an East TN parking lot a month ago. Been considering what the image means to me. Now I know. It’s to do with authenticity of form—in spite of extreme pressure, in spite of mortality, ephemerality. So there’s my project 2025. A refusal of oblivion.
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
