fellowship/publication submissions: 1 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 0 books: 0 Secret Shame: I see Stupid all around me which could very well be arrogance. (Or maybe evidence I'm in the wrong place at the wrong time). Mantra of the Moment: 11 Seconds
Tag: poetry
Monthly Meter: March
fellowship/publication submissions: 1 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 3 books: Home - Toni Morrison Secret Shame: I surrender all. Mantra of the Moment: Know when to hold/know when to fold/know when to walk away/know when to run.
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Throwback Thursday: How I Got Over
I can remember taking every photo: the day, the place, where my mind was. Remember writing the poem. Remember "discovering" it a good year later. Setting it to music; then choosing the pictures. Abusing that song by Citizen Cope; abusing Citizen Cope on Limewire; my first laptop (r.i.p). Throwback = throw your head back, close [...]
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PTSD [#1]
Post Traumatic Sexualization Syndrome - a type of anxiety; typically brought on by the sexualization of the female body in its formative years and/or in such a consistent sequence that the anxiety presents in or even as her realized sexuality and sexual experience Post Traumatic Sexualization Disorder - disorder in which one's anxiety surrounding sexuality is [...]
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Advice for People Writing Advice for Writers
Advice for People Writing Advice for Writers 7 Ways to Make Writing Advice Suck Less I will literally click on any link that says “Writing Advice.” The link may come from the New Yorker or someone’s Angelfire website from 1999. Doesn’t matter. I will read that crap out of it. Before we get to what [...]
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Monthly Meter: December
fellowship/publication submissions: 5 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 3 books: 12 Years A Slave - Solomon Northrup Secret Shame: My dusty passport. Mantra of the Moment: No risk, no reward.
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Monthly Meter: November
Not much to see here folks. But this is what it is. The writerly life is not all moody coffee shops, snaps, and moleskins. fellowship/publication submissions: 2 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 2 books: Aww, you know the story. Bleh. Secret Shame: If I talked to other people like I talk to myself sometimes, I would [...]
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Jonestown Turned 35 Yesterday
Marrow is my collection of poems about Jonestown (currently making the rounds with publishers). Many of the voices I re-imagine in it are those of black women. Why did they stay? Where would they go? Here's one answer. Why Did So Many Black Women Die? Jonestown at 35 Sikivu Hutchinson 35 years ago, on November [...]
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Monthly Meter (July, September, & August editions)
I am ridiculously behind on posting my stats. So for all 10 of you who keep track of my publication oohs and oh-ohs, here they are: July fellowship/publication submissions: 0 fellowship/publication acceptances: 1 fellowship/publication rejections: 3 books: Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde Secret Shame: I am in a love/hate relationship with Sleep. Mantra of the [...]
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Forgiving the Dark
Sleep’s tentacles loose and tickling should not be the enemy nor the medicine. And when Day stands in its way, it collapses under the demand. Parables, too, reach beyond night, never stay taped with snapshots on wood paneled walls and turn history even in the present. Dreaming to understand them only means understanding will never [...]
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