It’s here! As a longtime film & tv nerd with secret screenwriting dreams, I can’t tell you how thrilling it is to see my words interpreted into a visual medium by such a skilled filmmaker. Check out this stunning short by @juliangeow now!
I’m so excited to have a short story in the new issue of @pleiadesmag alongside so many writers I admire! I hope folks will check it out: pleiadesmag.com/issues/
“Nanda put on her old shooting uniform: black silk camisole, tuxedo blazer, skinny jeans, and a pair of black patent leather kitten heels.”
@Lsoman (MFA ‘17) published the short story “Harm Joy” in the current issue of @pleiadesmag.
pleiadesmag.com/issues/
“We’re just an interlude between ice ages.”
“Scale for Hurt,” the poem by @Lsoman (MFA ‘17), was brought to life by filmmaker @juliangeow.
The critically-acclaimed film premieres online Monday, Nov 23, @FilmShortage.
filmshortage.com
Thrilled to be working on poetry reviews with @noahbaldino & the rest of the incredible team at @The_Rumpus! Check out a bit about what we’re thinking for 2021 & send us your work! ✨
I just want to give a shout out to @JenMathy who does such an amazing job promoting and celebrating all the accomplishments of the @BennMFA_Writing students and alum. She's been brilliant.
(2/2) Our Best of the Net Noms:
"[Happy] Sweet Sixteen, Iraq Conflict" - Leena Soman Navani @Lsoman
"Love Poem with Dreams and War Stories" - Dana Alsamsam @DanaAlsamsam
Read these poems here: muzzlemagazine.com/spring-20…
Most folks are focused on the consent/deception threads, rightfully so, but between the 2 different videos Bella makes for Della earlier in the ep & the awkward bark/melanin exchange, the commentary on how social media flattens discourse was so good. Stellar show. #IMayDestroyYou
San Francisco just passed a resolution denouncing the CAA & NRC. Six U.S. cities have now condemned Modi, Amit Shah & fascism in India.
Organized Hindutva elements tried to stop the measure, but they failed. More resolutions are coming. You can't stop the forces of history.
The Rumpus is open for essay submissions until July 31 (therumpus.submittable.com/su…), so as an editorial staff we put together this thread of what we would like to see in @The_Rumpus submissions:
I’ve been seeing a lot of jokes about the show on matchmaking and arranged marriages on Netflix and as someone who’s lived through this hell for most of her twenties, I’m here to tell you; it’s no joking matter 1/n
There would be no Immigration Act of 1965 without the Voting Rights Act. And there would be no VRA without John Lewis. He made so many of us possible. I’m so sad for his loss, but overjoyed at my luck that my lifetime overlapped with his. Rest in power, troublemaker.
bro ... indian metalcore
that chorus is *insane*
we got protest music coming from all over the world y’all
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song: “Machi Bhasad”
artist: Bloodywood 🤘🏾
Vikas Khanna, gives it back to BBC news anchor. Anchor: in India, you were not from a rich family. So your sense of hunger must have come from there. Vikas: NO, I am from Amritsar, everyone gets fed there in the langars. My sense of hunger came from New York!