Somebody let me write about Coach Walz as Im a former college football player. PLEASE. PLEASE. Let me write about lessons football can teach us about democracy and why we need a coach now. PLEASE HAAAAAA
Grateful for this chance to go deep - thinking about what it meant to be seen into by the iconic Fanny Howe, what we writers can mean to each other, and how doing right isn’t the same as being good.
"In the final workshop of my graduate program, I was called out in class by Fanny Howe.... It’s taken 20 years, but I think I’m ready to learn what she was teaching me."
Read @LauraRCronk's essay "Courage & Candor" in the magazine: teachersandwritersmagazine.o…
We are excited to be back at AWP this year! Join us for our panel "Reimagining the Writer's Workshop," featuring @LauraRCronk, Mira Jacob, @jmaebarizo, and @brandoskyhorse
Learn more at: awpwriter.org 💫
Some promising news: Just spoke to editor David Remnick, who told me that, according to two Israeli military officials, the poet Mosab Abu Toha, who lives with his family in Gaza, has been released.
Grateful to @kpkaszu for designing a #poemvember prompt around Today: What Is Sexy. In my shyness about this poem I didn't broadcast it was also included in @BestAmPo 2022, but I love the ways our poems live their own lives, despite us. So, little poem, go on with your sexy self.
White evangelicalism has never really been about being like Jesus. It has been about controlling others, creating enemies, and inflicting pain. The same reason white evangelicals voted Herschel Walker is the same reason they voted for Trump: power.
This is the most open and vulnerable I’ve ever been online, but I’m so grateful to have the opportunity.
Texas, I love you. I will never give up.
Read my profile in Teen Vogue 👇🏼
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The Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize changed my life. Named for a young poet, activist, teacher, and mother, this prize lifts up emerging poets similarly attuned the ways poetry helps us see and be. Submissions are open now. @PerseaBooks@NewSchoolWrites