Writer in central Arkansas. Project manager at Kelsay Books. BFA from University of Evansville and Harlaxton College. Opinions my own.
Joined September 2018
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I'm excited to share more of my creative work (mainly poetry and some short fiction), starting this fall!
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We're so excited about @WritesSalazar's collection!
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25 Jun 2023
sun and moon, france, 15th century
ALT A medieval drawing of a sun and moon with frowning human faces, in gold on a blue background
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foggy.
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23 Jun 2023
After the Titanic sinking, the New York Times got so many bad poetry submissions they had to publish this:
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23 Jun 2023
whenever I don’t know if a poem is working or not I ask “is this interesting” and if it’s not I add a horse, this is what MFAs mean by voice, it’s the horse you add
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22 Jun 2023
Raymond Carver for your morning:
ALT Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
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22 Jun 2023
"There is no end,/ ... to the inventions of summer..."
—Mary Oliver
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21 Jun 2023
This.
This utter bull crap right here.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Authors are inundated with ideas. They spill out of our ears. They keep us awake at night. But if you give twenty authors the same idea, they will give you twenty different stories.
ALT A tweet from @mito_mensogo that says "Every human author has "scraped" the work of authors that came before them. Its unavoidable."
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18 Jun 2023
everybody asks “how do you write novels AND have a full time job?” & they never want the answer to be “i write for an hour every night after work, saturdays & sundays from 9-5, and then i take a two-week vacation & write through that” but it’s the goddamn truth.
16 Jun 2023
The most important lesson I ever learned as a writer:
When I was 28 I was at a bar on a Friday night. My friends and I were dancing and getting wasted and having an amazing night, when I looked around and noticed that my buddy Clark was missing.
I asked my buddy Jeremy, “Hey
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12 Jun 2023
I cannot for the life of me understand why people think shit like this means a single goddamn thing. A book can be about Russians. Russians are people, not orcs from Mordor.
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8 Jun 2023
It was an honor to be behind the scenes for such a beautiful and moving collection! 🥺🥺
8 Jun 2023
Also, special thanks to @JVSReads— it’s incredible to be able to put out a book at all, but to know you have a former student working on it behind the scenes is beautiful. It means a lot to me, Jenna. Thank you.
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8 Jun 2023
Also, Andy took pictures of me unboxing the books and I love them because (1) I can still see my copy of Jeremy Strong’s GQ out of the corner of my eye and (2) I’m PRETENDING I didn’t put the jersey on for the pictures, I totally did, I wanted the jersey.
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8 Jun 2023
Thanks especially to @ek_anderson, @JackieLeeMcLean, & @nadasurf for writing such generous blurbs (your copies will be on their way this week!), my student Everin Casey for the cover, ACTUAL @DrPhil, who is not in the book at all, & my family. Wow.
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8 Jun 2023
Been an absolutely wild week. If you’re someone who has said to me “I’d read a whole poems about you and an imaginary @DrPhil” (there are WAY more of you out there than is rational), today is your lucky day, because that book is out via Kelsay Books! kelsaybooks.com/products/me-…
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If I ever need someone immune to all forms of torture, I'm finding the nearest Menards employee
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