Sommer

If you know, you know. And we all know.

This was fun. Thank you! I got it in three, too.

Panelling Pain Kayla E. comes to VCU with her new graphic novel featuring an unflinching narrative about a young girl's abusive childhood.

Precious Rubbish is Kayla E’s new intense, stark graphic novel about a harrowing childhood boldly illustrated in a kind of 50s era Aw Shucks style. I wrote about her & her book talk tomorrow at VCU. www.styleweekly.com/panelling-pa...

I miss them too.

Ways of Listening Alicia Díaz on dance, the body’s knowledge, and co-creating change with “Arts for Climate Justice for Puerto Rico.”

"As someone who works with the body, there’s this clear awareness that bodies are not just neutral instruments that we use to [move].” I had great conversation w Alicia Díaz, a dancer & professor here in Richmond. Dancers know things in deep, earthly ways. I hope everyone has dancers in their life.

My record player begins to skip about 13 minutes in but it doesn’t matter when you listen to Steve Reich.

Death Hippies!!! hahhahaa great term

so mad

Makes me miss LA even more than I already do. Good interview. I don’t know much about his work, I’ll look it up.

Thank you!

I’m so sorry, Roxane. Sending peace to you and your family. Sometimes I think moms are perpetually preparing for Let’s Make a Deal. Remember when Monty Hall would ask the audience who has 14 bobby pins and a bouncy ball? And they’d get $100 or something?

​​MARY MARGARET ALVARADO, CORIE J. COLE, & AARON COHICK with Sommer Browning | The Brooklyn Rail Poet, artist, and publisher discuss the making of the collaborative artist book American Weather. Originally published as an essay in 2016, the artist book is about gun violence in the USA, as well as...

@sommerb.bsky.social interviewed the authors of American Weather, Mary Margaret Alvarado and @coriejcole.bsky.social for the Brooklyn Rail. It's a very sad and hopeful book. I am happy to have helped with it.

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​​MARY MARGARET ALVARADO, CORIE J. COLE, & AARON COHICK with Sommer Browning | The Brooklyn Rail Poet, artist, and publisher discuss the making of the collaborative artist book American Weather. Originally published as an essay in 2016, the artist book is about gun violence in the USA, as well as...

American Weather is a beautiful, hyper-local artist book about something very terrible, gun violence in the USA. I interviewed poet Mary Margaret Alvarado, publisher Aaron Cohick, and ceramicist Corie J. Cole about how they made it. It’s over at The Brooklyn Rail. @newlightspress.bsky.social

love you so

Exploring Connections Rae Whitlock on making comics and grasping ideas from the ether.

Goldfish is a great comic by Rae Whitlock. I got to talk with her and write about her work. www.styleweekly.com/exploring-co...

I'll have what she's having but she's having trouble listening to your excuses.

I'll have what she's having but she's having a nightmare with that flailing bald guy again.

I'll have what she's having but she's having sextuplets and just got furloughed.

I'll have what she's having but she's having a warrant served on your mom.

I'll have what she's having but she's having a grand mal seizure.

I'll have what she's having but she's having a moons over my hammy.

I am have-to-do-math-in-my-head years old.

When people say someone is their rock I only picture a pee rock that you put in a litter box so your rat will pee in the right place.

Can't some expensive subscription gummies fix this?

If you are a glass half empty person you are being mean to air. Also if you are a glass half full person.

A lot of people on teevee have veins popping out of their heads when they smile or are being dramatic or are just looking off into the distance and I think it's because they are unhealthy, maybe malnourished.

I am developmentally editing a novel right now, and have recently written wall text for a painter’s new show & edited a YA novel in verse. I love doing this work. Let me know if you need any help.

I don’t know what that is. But it is funny.

Each spam number I block leads me one step closer to my life goal of blocking every possible phone number in the universe.

The Artist Books of IBé Bulinda Crawley Sommer Browning interviews IBé Bulinda Crawley on her artist books and her founding of the IBé Arts Institute in Hopewell, Virginia.

What a wonderful thing it was to talk with IBé Bulinda Crawley about her incredible artist books (each one a kind of compassionate & fierce time machine) and her process of hand crafting them. Thank you, @burnaway.org. burnaway.org/magazine/a-r...