I'm working on a lecture on Munro & was just writing about 'Friend of My Youth' this morning. I've learned an endless amount from Munro's refusal of clean resolution & her embrace of unfurling possibility. The quiet art of wrestling w/ the big questions. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Happy birthday, Magical/Realism. I didn’t celebrate Mother’s Day this year. My first two Mother’s Days were traumatic, and I haven’t celebrated it since. So if you want to wish me a belated Mother’s Day, celebrate Magical/Realism instead. I gave everything up to write it.

I love these 1936 newsreel clips of Zdeněk Koubek, a Czech track star who publicly transitioned gender

after his transition, he came to New York to perform on Broadway. this seems to be the only surviving video

Koubek is the center of my book, THE OTHER OLYMPIANS — out June 4!

I think my book is pretty ... can't speak for what's inside ... I have no idea

I cannot WAIT to shout about community-based molecular phylogenetics that considers the social, political, and economic factors behind how and why pathogens move through the world.

COME ON OUT, VANCOUVER LOVERS AND HATERS!

I'm looking forward to reading nonfiction manuscripts for River Teeth's 2024 book prize! Submissions are due by Oct. 31. Don't you love a deadline for getting writing done?! riverteethjournal.com/book-prize/

Not enough people are talking about the fact that in Montgomery there is now a monument to formerly enslaved people that lists every one of their last names as it appeared in the 1870 Census, the first census to record Black people in this country.

legacysites.eji.org/about/monument/

We can't thank the jury enough for this wonderful discussion. Chelsea Manning Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Tolu Ogunlesi, MON , Emanuele Coccia , Rachel Monroe D. Ongaro, V. Walters, M. Bethenod and Adli.eth TAKKAL ₿ATAILLΞ 🦝🔮

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Christina Sharpe ( Ordinary Notes ) is the winner of the Hodler Prize 001 for Ordinary Notes (@fsgbooks)

#hodlerprize #christinasharpe

I’m out of jail, finally, and I just want to say that these students are the lifesblood, the bearing heart, I am so grateful for them and their courage and would defend them with my body any day without question. Free Palestine.

'Come together' over the STILL unacknowledged bodies of over 100 Palestinian journalists, poets, writers, translators, and academics? A laughable statement if it weren't so ghoulish

I had the chance to choose something from the The Paris Review archives to unlock this week. Here is my introduction to the Art of Poetry interview with William Meredith, whose words ('Why so many?') helped me through a very long period of writing no poetry mailchi.mp/theparisreview…

trans history, not as a form of legitimacy—we should matter no matter what—but as a form of connection, of reaching our hands through time

If you’ve ever heard “accessible poetry” as a dig and didn’t like that, this free, downloadable craft chap I wrote for SundressPublications might be for you!

“Becoming Mud:” A Neurodivergent Poetics Toward Movement

sundresspublications.com/wp-content/upl…

SHORT FILM is NY Public Library’s Book of the Day 🥺🎬

my writer mentor said that we should consider the possibility of writing for our most generous readers, our most attentive & thorough readers

& I’ve loved that advice

Overwhelmed to be on this list of Guggenheim Fellows along with so many writers I admire. Immensely grateful to GuggenheimFoundation
gf.org/announcements/

Last night I got to accept a freaking Oregon Book Award in the same venue where I went to senior prom and I am absolutely not recovered from the honor and non-stop smiley joy of it. Hugest howl of thanks to the judges and my Oregon community and Literary Arts 🐺❣️

This essay is out of this world. A meta-essay on languaging grief, written using the style guidance of the Chicago Manual of Style: theoffingmag.com/enumerate/an-a…

💀Death is my intimate shadow partner.

It is a disability intimacy.

I wrote for TIME about my relationship with mortality as someone who just turned 50 as a disabled person.

Shit has been rough but I’m still fucking here

time.com/6960765/alice-…