Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : October Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 1 Secret Shame: Not being able to shake it off. Books: Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell * Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The People's Temple, and Jonestown - David Chidester *still reading it
Author: darlene anita scott
...yeah, the one you met the other day in the grocery store. She made you wanna say something to her. You did. And now you can’t remember her name. But that wasn’t really the important part of the meeting anyway.
I'm an excellent tryer and dedicated if not so-so runner. I’m probably too old to still play on the monkey bars. But I do. Maybe too young to groove to Sam Cooke. But I listen to him. I'm powered by plants, a pacemaker, and anything creative.
I like making collages, making up my mind and sticking to it, and making up recipes; almost anything by James Baldwin; almost anything with black beans in it; and probably more than is healthy for the average human: I like alone time and homemade popcorn—not necessarily together.
I daydream constantly. I write poetry and prose. Sometimes I teach it to people. Sometimes I read or recite it to people. And even less often I publish it.
I could be more tolerant of overpriced grapes, people who drive with parking lights on, and deafening car stereos.
I like to laugh but don’t do it as often as I should. Some people think I'm shy. Some think I'm a mute. I'm happy to be here and try to make the most of it.
Looking at the Pictures
I stopped writing a few years ago. Dealing with the stuff I wrote about was hard enough to manage in my daily life; rehashing it in words was putting salt in the open wound. So I stopped. No journals, no poems, not a line of metaphors, nouns turned to verbs, nothing. I hoped that not [...]
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This Is Hip Hop
This essay is an update to the original draft posted here and can be read or printed in PDF (without live links) here. Abstract: Much like crack, hip hop music is arguably addictive and can be equally deadly. A leisure of the lower/working class, hip hop music emerged in American culture nearly directly alongside and [...]
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Manufacturing Luck - Areka http://are-ka.deviantart.com “Man, I wouldn’t mind getting my house redone on Extreme Makeover. But I don’t wanna go through what you gotta go through to get it done!” Homeboy Everyday there’s a news story of some terrible tragedy that has happened from Mozambique to Maine; to someone random and nameless to the [...]
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Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : September Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 1 Secret Shame: Hold Yuh - Gyptian; reading celebrity gossip on the internet Books: Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple - Deborah Layton
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Daydream Sequence #8
My r.e.m. is interrupted by an abrupt need to search for a sweet spot. Kick my legs to loosen the comforter that’s tangled them. Gosh I’m tired. I survey the dark room as it appears from this new angle; under the dresser. Nothing new there: same old dust. Suddenly there are lights. Police lights? No, [...]
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Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : August Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 6 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 2 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 Secret Shame: Stuff I think. Books: Bread Givers - Anzia Yezierska Brother, I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat One in a Million - Kimberla Lawson Roby
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Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : July Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 Secret Shame: "Ego" (the remix) by Beyonce f/Kanye West Books: still reading Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
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Staring Into the Sun
It’s been a different kind of season. Summer hasn’t quite decided to be summer. The Earth seems to be recalling its own at a disarming rate. Among them, I learned this weekend, was one of my former students. Here I go back to Harris Hall surrounded by students wanting to know stuff. Mario has crumpled [...]
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Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : June Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 5 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 Secret Shame: this dang sugar addiction Books: I've been pretty illiterate this month...
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