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Day 4, Meditations in an Emergency
www.instagram.com/p/B9y5kBVgKuw/ Day 4 It was a lot of effort to get this light in our house, and to have my desk in this position to receive it. I’m grateful for every moment of it. Pups are having breakfast in bed. Homeschooling will being at 9. I was reading a piece in the New York Times…
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Expressway Book Trailer
I’ve been finding all sorts of documents and random files as I try to rebuild my own files after a series of technical mishaps that may or may not have had anything to do with having twins a month before taking over directorship of Writers Read, publishing my first novel, and dealing with the ongoing…
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Sylvia Plath’s Daddy
Of all the poems to rewrite, or respond to, “Daddy” remains the most difficult (for me at least). It is its own ecosystem; it captures the range of traumas available to a young woman circa 1963 and onward, both inside and outside the house, the body, history. It enacts the repetitions of gendered trauma and…
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Amazing Times, #metoo and beyond
I am no longer on social media of any kind, but I manage to keep up thanks to a fabulous network of women texting and emailing. Loved the smart piece from Zoe Whittall which you can find here: http://web.archive.org/web/20180205201323/https://thewalrus.ca/canlit-has-a-sexual-harassment-problem/ come on Walrus, do your job. Get it back online. Also, Catharine A. MacKinnon in the New…
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On Not Winning
On Not Winning BY SINA QUEYRAS The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Is it? Is it easy to face the losses? The defeats? The nominations? Or worse, lack of nomination and defeat? Let’s face it, we live in the era of the big prize. It’s how we tend to argue for the value…