I’ve been sitting with the intention to write up a dharma talk. It’s my homework. For weeks now I’ve been talking ideas over with friends, listening to other people’s dharma talks and writing unending notes, getting nowhere. Not nowhere exactly. I got nowhere writing the kind of talk I thought Read more…
Our writing & meditation class at The Poetry Project, meditation in an emergency, continues apace. We made lots of little books last week. Above is an image from one of my own. I’m so grateful to get to offer what I love with/for others who share my interests. Writing and Read more…
“Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous” Frank O’Hara Next month, I’ll be guiding a workshop at The Poetry Project, meditation in an emergency. I tweaked Frank O’Hara’s title because it feels especially apt, but the workshop’s got nothing to do with Frank O’Hara. It Read more…
Was feeling a bid judgey with that last post & all the conversations around what constitutes activism. I can cling very tightly to my own views. I’m grateful to be in community that allows me my struggles and supports my accountability and growth in the process. A friend shared a Read more…
I’ve been having lots of conversations lately about what being in right relationship looks like: what accountability is and isn’t, what being in community means. I believe we all must be responsible for for our actions as well as our inactions, answering not only to ourselves, and others, but to Read more…
I’m thrilled to have a few poems from my manuscript, self-driving, included in the March issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Thanks so much to Anselm Berrigan, fearless Rail poetry editor.
SPD is celebrating the Letters to the Future: Black Women / Radical Writing anthology this Black History Month by offering 30% off titles by anthology authors and other radical black women writers. My book‘s on the list, as well as a lot of other Belladonna titles– work from some of Read more…
February 3 from 6-8 pm at 9 W. 8th Street in NYC I’m reading with CAConrad, Matvei Yankelevich, Morgan Vo, Karen Weiser, Farnoosh Fathi, Shiv Kotecha and Anselm Berrigan in association with Artfare-New York‘s inaugural exhibition. A lot of what I wrote is in response to Dustin Yellin‘s work. The Read more…
Reaching the Cliffs of Moher was a visceral experience of the end of the line, the edge of the world. Beautiful and terrifying. This photo does no justice to the drama of the experience, but it illustrates an end. Ending one year, beginning the next, I’ll be starting my 2019 Read more…
Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing, edited by Erica Hunt and Dawn Lundy Martin is available this week from Kore Press. I’m honored to have work included in this amazing anthology. From the Publishers Weekly starred review, “Hunt (Arcade) and Martin (Good Stock Strange Blood) treat the intersection of blackness Read more…