I have read books. Listening to books counts as reading books (NaturalReader is a godsend, as is any resource that turns books into PDFs I can feed into NaturalReader). I don't have to read everything that's been written on my topic. My experience is a valid source of knowledge. My body is is a valid … Continue reading affirmation
Tag: poetry
material girl
Spiritual materialism(s). New materialism(s). Feminist materialism(s). Queer materialism(s). Historical materialism(s). I am weary of categories, but I am excited by conversations about the possibilities of materialism as an ethical foundation. Materialism has a deservedly bad rap in the context of consumer culture, but the word, even the idea, has no inherent helpful or harming value. … Continue reading material girl
near term/ mid-term/ to term
We keep hearing -- and saying -- we don't have language for what is happening. We need new metaphors. Is "Advice to a Prophet" on every high school syllabus yet? Is "For a Coming Extinction?" Is "The Black Maria?" Meanwhile, I am thinking about the strangeness of words that circulate, ragged, limping, nearly stripped of … Continue reading near term/ mid-term/ to term
missing
A couple of weeks ago I attended a seminar about "missing voices" of women in Irish poetry. Between academics who held their subjects at an impassioned, scholarly distance, to writers who presented movingly on now dead friends, and, finally, others doing their best to fit within the shapes academia allows both for researchers and subjects, … Continue reading missing
feeling is mutual 