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“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
Octavia E. Butler
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On Your “Justice and Open Debate”
I’ve been thinking long and hard about what to say on this and I have settled on the following: Okay. Not even thank you, because I feel as though all of you who cosigned this laughable decree of pseudo-oppression are locked on to this idea wholeheartedly. You don’t deserve gratitude. Okay, as in at least…
Toolbox and the Junkyard
I remember during undergrad, sitting in a small conference room, waiting for my professor to enter. The class was intermediate poetry and I felt the familiar nervo-excitement I always had going into my creative writing classes, but especially poetry. Prose is easy. You string words together, make a foundation, take up as much space as…
Leka
For my mother. The girl was born Leka. It is the name that comes back to her most often, dipped in the honey of her grandmother’s voice. The name had been taken from her. Scraped away by miles of gravel and track, sweat out by Georgia summers. She feels like that about most everything from…
Nicc Nacks 