[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Tabs open on your screen right now: Instagram, iTunes (WuTang Clan, 36 Chambers of Death), FB, Twitter, Weather, Alarm, YouTube, etc. If you had to brag about yourself: My [...]
If you had to brag about yourself: I make these chocolate cupcakes that are very good.
While spending too long thinking about what constitutes a lie to oneself, I burned the tahini honey yogurt cake I am baking. It may have improved it.
Last time you lied: I have children so like five minutes ago.
Last time you lied: A pair of friends came over around 9 am to drop off their keys so I could stop by and feed their cat while they were away. I was still in my pajamas.
Your rituals (writing or not): Too many cat-petting rituals to name. Suffice it to say, they make my life worth living.
Any place in the world: Impartial as long as it’s a cold, wintry beach where I get to be very in my feelings
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Tabs open on your screen right now: -a novel set in Cyprus -a journal - Ali Smith's talk in accepting the Goldsmith prize -a bell that rings randomly to [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] If you had to brag about yourself: I'm really good at making exact change. I like using pennies. Any place in the world: The attic where I grew up [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Tabs open on your screen right now: Wikipedia page for "Cumans" ("a Turkic nomadic people comprising the western branch of the Cuman-Kipchak confederation") (I was reading about shamanism and [...]
If you have a c-section, you might want to get yourself some high-waisted panties because the incision will be right where your usual panties sit and it hurts.
Gmail, Twitter, an article on Coleridge called “Is the Ancient Mariner a Zombie?”, my Game of Thrones fantasy league score tables, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s “Women’s Work” from the Boston Review, Wikipedia page for the singer Rebekah Del Rio, essay on the Punjabi poet Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Twitter
At once delicate and sinewy, intoxicating and lacerating, Cannibal delves into bodies and histories—female, black, Caribbean, immigrant—with an uncompromising lyric intelligence. While these poems would constitute essential reading in any era, in 2017 they feel scribed in fire.
Trenchant, dexterous, and intensely lyrical, Journey’s essays anatomize and alchemize their subject matter, piecing the author’s personal experiences, family history, and eclectic—frequently macabre—fascinations into a tender and nuanced investigation of our relationship to the stories we inherit and construct, inhabit and revise, inscribe and transmit.
The urgency: Hard and hilarious and forgiving and gracious and sexy and family is the best and very worst and we hurt each other in the most spectacular ways. Also do the work that lights you up despite those “mentors” that scrape your face away.
I acted nonchalant when I was, in truth, heartbroken.
I can stay calm during a crisis. But only if it’s very, very serious. Trivial complications provoke a totally outsized reaction from me. I can only handle catastrophes.
Lately I’ve been thinking about being on the radio. In college, I hosted a late night show with a friend, which meant we spent each week combing the internet and pulling records, then choosing songs until each set reflected a glimmer of our lives.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="21755" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Complete the sentence, “Being a Taurus is like…” Nabila Lovelace: Being a Taurus is like jayy dodd: “Being a Taurus is like being a monument [...]
I’m impulsive. It’s get me into trouble. Also, my nose. Or maybe I’m fine with my nose now, I don’t know. Also, I’m indecisive.
The lie: something abt being interested in a book someone wrote, out of 'politeness' or 'fakeness,' however you wanna spin it
Your rituals (writing or not): fuck. a LOT OF THINGS. one i’ll share: I got these prayer beads. when i’m stressy or just awake, i count each bead (112) out loud.
Dense and dazzling as carpet pages, the poems in this collection salvage and repurpose ultratraditional formal elements and well-worn subjects to comment on the palimpsestic nature of language, excavating the layers of violence and resistance it registers and illuminating spaces in which the tongue refuses to submit.
By turns beckoning and snarling, the poems in Beast work the membranes dividing self and other, human and animal, waking and dream, life and afterlife. Post is a master of the self-portrait poem, inhabiting a wide range of identities and dramatic situations to trace and retrace tangled routes of power and belonging.
How I felt reading it: Like praying, then forgetting who you are praying to, realizing you are at a party, that it is over and you don’t recognize anyone, but you are still flush with the pleasure and longing, and the prayer catches in your throat, half there.
Lately I’ve been thinking about being on the radio. In college, I hosted a late night show with a friend, which meant we spent each week combing the internet and pulling records, then choosing songs until each set reflected a glimmer of our lives.
Complete the sentence, “Being an Aries is like…” Madeleine Maillet: Waking up and realizing today is the day you’re going on a trip and you haven’t packed our bought your ticket [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail, web portal thing from the school I work for, OnlyUndiesClub (to see if it still exists, made curious by question below, it [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail; Google Drive; the Google doc I’m answering these questions in; another project I’m working on, also a gdoc; “Constructed Worlds” by Elif [...]
If you had to brag about yourself: For thirty-five years I’ve had perfect vision. Your writer crush: Elizabeth Hardwick in 1979, Fiona Apple Favorite lyric: It was the first part [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Facebook. Tweetdeck. Three NYT articles. One Fast Company article. One WSJ article. Spotify. The Muse. Tumblr porn. If you had to brag about [...]
Complete the sentence, “Being a Pisces is like…” Joe Osmundson: All the feels, all the time. Always a drive to do creative work. Deep empathy for loved ones and strangers [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Facebook (never closes). Google docs. Square. Some video where Susan Sarandon is being a total entitled jackass.If you had to brag about yourself: [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail, Google Docs, Verse.press, Facebook, Twitter, NY Times, Lit Hub, The Nation, Google Analytics. If you had to brag about yourself: I make [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: My email inbox, a Google doc of a new piece, which is a meditation on mountains. And Zappos.com, I’m looking for boots and [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Facebook, the English PEN page, and the hoard of academic articles on JSTOR that I’m promising myself I’ll read this afternoon. If you [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Two work emails (Yahoo and Outlook), my personal Gmail, rare book seller (looking at a folklore dictionary that I used to read during [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: (I'm guilty of lots of open tabs): Amazon confirmation order for purchasing dog books and nail polish strips, NYT article about Donald Trump dropping [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: I have about eighteen tabs open in a few different windows right now. I have a friend who only commits herself to having [...]
Your writer crush: Roxane Gay Favorite lyric: "Your father made fetuses with flesh licking ladies, While you and your mother were asleep in the trailer park.’ Oh Comely, Neutral Milk [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: This Morgan Parker essay, capes on etsy for toy poodles, this bianca stone poem , watching the L word on netflix If you [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: “The Growing Legend of Shirley Jackson,” an interview with Ruth Franklin and Doug Gordon at Electric Literature. If you had to brag about [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Several Google Drive documents, Google Calendar, Facebook, Twitter, Mailchimp, OkCupid and two Gmail accounts. If you had to brag about yourself: I am [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: - Youtube Video "Music for Effective Studying- Easy Studying Music- Beautiful Study Music- Easy Smooth Inspirational" - Twitter - Google Drive Folder- "Alana [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Pantone's Color of The Year (It's "Greenery"), Chani Nicholas Horoscopes, Lorelei Black's website, Antwawn Sargent's interview w/ Arthur Jafa, Fred Moten's Lunch Ticket [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Isadora Duncan autobiography "My Life" // Gmail // Google Calendar // Google Drive // Chase Year-End Summary // Google Finance // Facebook // [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: -"Artist sketchbooks" Google search (for teaching) Article from Portland weekly Willamette Week about how the Portland NAACP pulled out of the upcoming Women's [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: eBay search for “first class relics,” lesson plans, a science experiment for children on how to see an afterimage, Audre Lorde’s “Afterimages,” Wikipedia [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Blogger. I am designing a blog for a studio art class I am teaching this semester at Naropa: Shrine, Ritual, Installation. Also, Twitter. [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: No tabs open. If you had to brag about yourself: I will call the 1-800 number for you because I know how much [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail, Hulu paused on "Inside Amy Schumer." If you had to brag about yourself: I do it all the time, I'm told... I'm [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Google calendar A short piece on the Four of Swords that Lily Hoang sent me the day of the election A scan of [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Email1; Calendar; Email2; Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt; ESPN Fantasy Basketball (2nd place at the moment!); Google Maps map of St. Petersburg, [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Besides the usual Gmail and Drive, Healthcare.gov and a Google search on how to automatically send someone straight to voicemail without blocking them. [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: NASA report on water depletion, email trash fire, wikipedia page on threatening the president of the United States, wikipedia page on Wendy’s fast-food [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: health insurance nightmare, a zillion Wikipedia articles about birds, that pretty great Daft Punk/Beastie Boys mashup, Submittable, research for a poem about Nietzsche [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Facebook, Wikipedia If you had to brag about yourself: I used to play Varsity Soccer & Basketball, and was voted Prom King. Now [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Baseball statistics site, Wall Street Journal article about weirdest baseball superstitions, twitter, thesaurus, the New Yorker, tab-that-shall-not-be-named-because-it-is-related-to-my-partner’s-birthday-present, gmail. If you had to brag [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: A google doc entitled "BOOK TWO," this, this, and this. If you had to brag about yourself: My balance and sprezzatura in heels. [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Rebecca Solnit's City of Women map in the New Yorker, dreamy pictures of the Hanson Brothers, Google map street view of my childhood [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: 30. Things have gotten out of hand. If you had to brag about yourself: I would be very uncomfortable. And probably writing a [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Twitter, Gmail, way too many banking-related tabs (the thrills & chills of setting up billing & payment as a freelancer!).If you had to [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Lonely Hearts Lingerie, Chelsea Hodson’s Tiny Spills, this poem, a google doc I’m editing, the Wikipedia page on Enheduanna If you had to [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Uh, I'm a hoarder, but here are a few: NAMES FOR GOD (Wikipedia); various social media; various horoscopes for Cancers; The Guardian's review [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Google search results for “goat varieties in the Caribbean” Abramsbooks.com NYT: “10 Competitive House Races” Zabars.com Repeat Delivery Program/bagels Your writer crush: Dead? [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Hypernormalisation, a BBC documentary I want to watch; Hobart submittable page since I’m reading fiction subs for October; wolf pupy’s twitter account; Ballotpedia [...]
Your writer crush: Warsan Shire Favorite lyric: At this moment: "It's a thin line between love and hate." Any place in the world: Rush Hour Records in Amsterdam. Best breakfast: [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: cosmonaut avenue website ( ;) ) a pdf of a chapbook by astrid lorange from sod press an article by dorothea lasky called [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail / Three Google Docs / Facebook / Google Search If you had to brag about yourself: I am really good at filtering [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: NYTimes, BBC, Shopstyle, Seamless, the movie "Suspiria" on YouTube If you had to brag about yourself: I have a pretty good brain Your [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: My work computer just has boring work stuff (about a gazillion tabs of a NYT archive search of “Turkish military” + “secular” since [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail; Voter’s Edge CA; “Woolf's Einfuhlung: An Alternative Theory of Transgender Affect” by Lucas Crawford; four different google docs with bits of an [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail. Chase Bill Pay (I sent my last rent check to the wrong address…). Tiny Spills. Tiny Spills. Tiny Spills. Tiny Spills. Tiny [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: 15, on a startling range of topics. If you had to brag about yourself: I'm getting nicer every day. Your writer crush: Amy [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: "Philip Glass on controlling your output and getting paid for what you make;" mottandbow.com; Facebook; "Larry Wilmore Talks HBO’s ‘Insecure,’ TV Diversity and the [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Pocket, Mint, these VERY CUTE SHOES I am considering on ASOS.com, Netflix (Episode 9 of Luke Cage), CheapAir.com, and a yellow dress on [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Cosmonauts, Jessica Lanyadoo's horoscopes, Cherry Velvet dresses, Aids Action Now website, Donovan Woods' soundcloud page. Maria Bamford's show paused on [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Only this one! If you had to brag about yourself: I would say that I try very hard to be empathetic. Your writer crush: [...]
If you had to brag about yourself: I’m Black and alive and living. Your writer crush: Nick Laird Favorite lyric: “Don’t know what’s in store, but together we can open [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail, Submittable (where I'm reading fiction submissions for the next issue of No Tokens), Dictionary.com (where I was looking up a synonym for [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: facebook.com, nytimes.com, grandpa.se, lightboxpoetry.com If you had to brag about yourself: I mean, this hair, obviously. Your writer crush: Saving myself for Sondheim. [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Just this. Astrologically, my sun and moon are in Capricorn, which makes me a very focused and structured person. I fluctuate between so [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: "Aubade with Burning City" by Ocean Vuong at Poetry Magazine (audio); "100 Bells" by Tarfia Faizullah at Poetry Magazine (audio); Vimeo of Xochitl-Julisa [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Netflix, Power House Arena, Twitter, Interview w/ Mary Miller on Electric Literature, Litreacor (my online class), The Rumpus If you had to brag [...]
Your writer crush: J.B. Fletcher Any place in the world: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Best breakfast: Coffee from a French Press and my friend Julie's homemade blueberry pancakes with compote [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Personal Gmail, Bennington Review Gmail, YouTube: Eric Andre Show — “Falcon,” Dream Dictionary — “Mouse Bite.” If you had to brag about yourself: [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: DEMOCRACY NOW! COWSPIRACY (one of the most important documentaries of our time, AND the blog on this site is AMAZING) If you had [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: i honestly have so many open in two different browsers, these are just the ones i can see: ASOS, Miista, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: The New York Times, Twitter, Bernadette Mayer’s poem “Failures in Infinitives,” Danez Smith’s answers to this same Q&A (which I really enjoyed reading), [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Gmail work email KROnline interview with Safiya Sinclair RollingStone piece on South America’s 8 scariest serial killers Submittable The Guardian story on Puerto [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Max Ritvo tribute in Berfrois Gmail Facebook Season 3 of Transparent Academic jobs wiki Wix website editor Calamities by Renee Gladman Dark Souls [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: gmail, facebook, indesign, a load of word documents, spotify—too much If you had to brag about yourself: I’m quick at learning languages and [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: PsychologyToday's therapist directory (I'm searching for a new person after moving back home to Chicago from Boston), "What I Pledge Allegiance To" by [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Renew passport by mail, YouTube Living Single theme song, Google image search: vertical messenger bag, Daryl Baldwin—Macarthur Fellows class of 2016, NPR main [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: a poem, an essay prompt for my students, a Khadijah Queen poem, facebook, some lab results from my doctor, itunes playing Noname, an [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Work: University of Missouri (was away from my laptop all afternoon.) If you had to brag about yourself: I wouldn't. It's not about [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Deadspin: the story behind the perfect photo of olympic pain Deadspin: How a career ends: Dominique Moceanu, America's youngest gold-medal gymnast Youtube: Kanye [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: okay so i'm a really bad serial tab pinner. here are all my pinned tabs as of today: Aleatoric music Sami people Executive [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: Facebook / An interview with Alexander Chee / Moira Egan's beautiful "Ghazanelle" / Episode 10 of Outlander / FKA twigs's performance at Pitchfork [...]
Tabs open on your screen right now: To-Do Lists, A running document where I type up student poem feedback, Blind Pilot performing "Umpqua Rushing" Live at Bear Creek Studio (YouTube); [...]