April 30, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.” Happy birthday, Annie Dillard! 74. today! “It’s about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices… Read More
April 30, 2019August 28, 2023 - Anthology, Archives, Poetry, Reading, WritingFive Poems, by Jessie Janeshek Blue Eyeshadow Suicide Blonde Hairbrush masturbation dark passage powderpuff jazz but I’m the same as I ever was grass skirts… Read More
April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, WritingA Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols “This human nose, for instance, of which no philosopher has yet spoken with reverence and gratitude, is, for the present,… Read More
April 28, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing“Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.” Happy birthday, Roberto Bolaño! Here are some quotes from his writing. “[T]he secret story is the one we’ll never know,… Read More
April 27, 2019April 27, 2019 - Excerpt, Quotes, Reading, Theater, Writing“Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone’s disbelief.” Happy birthday, August Wilson! Here are some quotes from the playwright’s plays and interviews. “Confront the dark parts of yourself,… Read More
April 25, 2019August 28, 2023 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing(Our Real Limbs), by Harold Abramowitz (31) Then we were waiting for that last second, I thought. It was a good day. There were good… Read More
April 24, 2019August 28, 2023 - Anthology, Archives, Poetry, Reading, WritingOde from a Mockingbird, by Tom La Farge 1. Tu fritchyoo wenk wenk chooble-chooble-dee Chebeck tzabira cheeva queedle whoo, Chyoo kuk kuk kuk tzee! kuk kuk kuk wee!… Read More
April 23, 2019August 28, 2023 - Anthology, Archives, Poetry, Reading, WritingPoems, by Laynie Browne Sekhmet Transcriptions Rivers of red in Sekhmet waylaid thoughts waylaid only the voice hovers clouds hush not stop.… Read More
April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing“Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain.” Happy birthday, Louise Glück! 76, today! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Poetry survives because it haunts and it… Read More
April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing“Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!” Happy birthday, Vladimir Nabokov! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.” “For me… Read More