Writing is an act of patient endurance; it is a spiritual pursuit, and curiosity is the god that oversees it all. Paisley Rekdal
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22 Sep 2022
An infamous prison farm. A great river in flood. A mysterious religious colony. Through them all, 13-year- old Samuel searches for his father in a Father Quest of antiquity updated to early-20th c. Mississippi.
#PitBLK #A #Litfic
ALT A four panel collage of photos. Starting in the upper left: two Black men in prison garb working outdoors; a river flooding a small wooden house in the distance; a small Black child smiling joyously with hands in front at shoulder level; and the silhouette of a man on a hill walking from right to left atop a hill while holding reins with dramatic clouds in the background.
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12 Apr 2024
This seems like both a wise and a compassionate approach.
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Stanley Stocker retweeted
11 Apr 2024
@jerichobrown’s Craft Talk! Tonight!
Poetry As Survival: A Reading of Langston Hughes’s Suicide Note
April 11th, 6:30 pm EST Virtual
Open to all. Free for Tribe. twhpoetry.submittable.com
Here’s a #2MinLineBreak of “Duplex: Cento.”
#crafttalk #twhtribe #twhpoetry #napowrimo
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Stanley Stocker retweeted
11 Apr 2024
We are so thrilled for our author @arugulaada, winner of a 2024 Whiting Award for Fiction for her debut collection THE SORROWS OF OTHERS. And a huge congratulations to this phenomenal group of winners 🎉💛
10 Apr 2024
Congratulations to @arugulaada, winner of a 2024 Whiting Award for Fiction! whiting.org/awards/winners/a…
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11 Apr 2024
I'm not seeing how this was implied. What am I missing? It's been a long day. Maybe I'm just tired, hence my reading comprehension is low right now?
11 Apr 2024
I had to withdraw from the PEN World Voices Festival. The last straw from me was the tweet below, which implies that anyone who chooses to be a part of PEN is tacitly agreeing that PEN aligns with their values and advocacy. This comes after many private messages from PEN.(Thread)
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11 Apr 2024
I am an apostle of the fiction writer Edwards P. Jones.
And he is my fiction Christ.
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11 Apr 2024
Congratulations, Ada! @aru
10 Apr 2024
Congratulations to @arugulaada, winner of a 2024 Whiting Award for Fiction! whiting.org/awards/winners/a…
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10 Apr 2024
How come this discourse about whether a poet is any good never involves a prominent male poet?
10 Apr 2024
This is the best piece I've read so far on the whole Mary Oliver discussion (actually, surprisingly, not a poet I knew at all apart from a single poem before the last week or two). commonreader.co.uk/p/is-mary…
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6 Apr 2024
Trying something new with a story. I don't know whether it's really good or really bad. Very unlikely that it's in the middle. I guess I'll know once I put it away for a couple of months. Writing is weird.
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5 Apr 2024
What's heaven?
Heaven is finding an old NYer in your bookshelf containing an Edward P. Jones story you haven't read yet.
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1 Apr 2024
Got some cash for snacks for kids learning in juvenile detention?
1 Apr 2024
Updates! 1. At the girls request, I extended the series so THIS Weds is our last class. 2. I got permission to bring books food! 3. The cost of 16 books, donuts, candy is gonna run me between $215 and $250. Would love community support for this. $AjanaeDawkins on cashapp.
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Stanley Stocker retweeted
7 Jan 2024
Billionaire hedge fund investor Bill Ackman was among the most vociferous and morally preening critics of Harvard President Claudine Gay. He lambasted her for failing to take antisemitism seriously. 1/x
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30 Mar 2024
The amount of homophobia surfacing in the Black community, particularly among lovers of hip-hop, surrounding the Diddy stories is staggering.
Discussions of alleged abuse of power is one thing. You don't need to mix in homophobia with it.
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Stanley Stocker retweeted
29 Mar 2024
I'm grateful to everyone who has either shared, donated or mentioned it to someone else. I deeply appreciate it. I'm currently on $633 out of the $5100 goal.
I'd appreciate your donations and sharing. Thank you. 🤲
I'm grateful to the community for the help so far.
20 Mar 2024
I'm happy to share that I was accepted by two MFA programs: University of Alabama and University of Tennessee creative writing programs in poetry. Getting accepted into an MFA program means that I have the chance to further learn more about what I love to do best; writing.
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28 Mar 2024
Don’t forget to be kind, babies. We only have each other. #Kurtvonnegut #InspirationalQuotes
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28 Mar 2024
Seeing the stark difference between the average number of fertility days for men and women in a lifetime really puts the greater burden that women typically carry for birth control (or fertility management) in perspective.
Sharing the Burden
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26 Mar 2024
I have a vision of a group called the Metheny Mays. Lyle Mays was such an integral part of the Pat Metheny Group that the name feels like if the Beatles had been called The John Lennon Band. Just feels unbalanced.
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Stanley Stocker retweeted
25 Mar 2024
This note seemed too personal at first, but on second thought, it seems very practical, though a rather elite problem to have... chronicle.com/article/speaki… ... philosopherscocoon.typepad.c… ... hbr.org/2018/05/how-much-sho…
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