Author: jen
26 Feb Getting Back to Business
I've said this often, I am a terrible procrastinator. I've spent too much time (years really) attempting to either perfect every poem or simply find every excuse of why I cannot find the time to write. Every moment I look up and realize how much...
16 Feb Patricia Smith story time. #ltab
Patricia Smith story time. #ltab...
10 Jan The Non-Resolution Resolution
Within the first 10 days of this new year, I’ve come across a few blogs, statuses and tweets of those “resolving” themselves for 2013. I, myself, have often been one of those people, demanding newfound and cast-aside undertakings where I will be a better lover, better friend, better bodied, and most...
07 Nov “Cruelty” by Lucille Clifton
"Cruelty" by Lucille Clifton I just mentioned on Twitter that I was thinking of a simple idea: it is interesting how things you thought were no longer have a way of coming back in such nearly invisible ways. I then thought of this poem, "Cruelty" by...
07 Nov Poetry Anonymous: My Writing Group Is Dope
Every writer needs his/her own support group, a group of people who get you. I love my friends to death and they are very supportive, but there is nothing like being around people who completely understand why you froze in place as Yusef Komunyakaa walked...
06 May ““When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes…”
““When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” - Audre Lorde”...
26 Apr #NowReading: Divide These by Saskia Hamilton
One of the books I obsessively gathered amongst the stack I fished out when I discovered where the Harold Washington Library was hiding all the contemporary poetry (and here I thought they just weren’t getting with it!) was Divide These by Kaskia Hamilton....
16 Apr Photos I’ve been hoarding from AWP 2009 here in Chicago.
Photos I’ve been hoarding from AWP 2009 here in Chicago.
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