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My Tenure Tattoo

I perched in the padded tattoo chair grateful for the lymph, the healthy white blood cells rising up to the surface that allowed my skin to take the…

Nov 14 • 

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October 2024

Holly Flauto Got Tired of Filling in the Blanks with the "Right" Answer

The answers to the blanks on the immigration application have burst out of their normal official structures into poems—each one stretching out in a…

Oct 18

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September 2024

Anna Henderson Was Finally Able to Drop the Shark

I bring readers into the research and discovery process of science and behind the scenes in the work of politics. I wrote the book with my old field…

Sep 17 • 

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August 2024

Oliver Baez Bendorf Was Awakened by the Rooster's Crow

The collection explores ecological consciousness and the construction of criminality, asking who is entitled to peace and who faces scrutiny.

Aug 20

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July 2024

"I’ve had to fight for this time but also accept that what’s possible shifts from season to season."

poet and professor Bronwen Tate on the "beautiful exhaustion" of life with small children and how her daughter's artwork reminds her that "ideas come in…

Published on Write More, Be Less Careful • Jul 30

Shashi Bhat Cried When She Got the Last Line Right

"With the title, I wanted to suggest the theme of accumulating injustices, small slices of harm that are ultimately devastating—this theme is present in…

Jul 16

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A Writer's Commonplace Book as "Transitive Diary"

Life swerves, ordinary rituals, and sustaining technologies with company from Jillian Hess and Amer Latif

Jul 2 • 

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June 2024

Kate Schapira Wanted to Write Deep and Straight and Fast Like a Tidal Channel

Writing = Making and Solving Problems, Try This at Home, Let's Help a Writer for Free!

Jun 18

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5 Ways to Take a (Real) Break Amidst Creative Work

with help from Dani Shapiro, Carl Phillips, and Lydia Davis

Jun 3

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April 2024

On Distraction

Oliver Burkeman and Confronting Our Limits

Apr 9 • 

Bronwen Tate

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January 2024

New Year, What Are You Practicing?

Also, a new book contract, A live Vancouver event with Deb from Smitten Kitchen (!!!), and Broccoli Ricotta Pizza

Jan 23 • 

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December 2023

The First Rule of Avoidance Club Is You Say Why It's Hard

Plus a Poets' Solstice Zoom Reading (tonight!), Green Fingerless Gloves, Whole Cloth Reading Series in Vancouver, Ali Blythe's Stedfast, Rajiv Mohabir's…

Dec 21, 2023 • 

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