Keep the promises you make to yourself in joy and clarity 😊

📣 It could be you they're looking for! 📣 I was fortunate to attend last summer's workshop & it was truly incredible, full of gifts for my self & my writing that I'm still reaping.

The piano of Thelonious Monk inside the "Cat House", the baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter's villa, with a Manhattan skyline view. photo by Jean-François Laberine, 1993

Aubrey Plaza answers the question “what if eeyore was a hot human woman”

"My mind works slowly and obscurely, and I mostly find out what I’m doing by looking at what I’m doing or have done. Mostly I don’t even do that." Revisiting this 2008 interview of UKLG by @alexanderchee guernicamag.com/breaking_into_…

Black men deserve to grow old.

“So first, I’m always trying to be a better human being, and second, I continue to learn my craft. Then, when I have something positive to say, I can say it beautifully. That’s my responsibility.” — Maya Angelou from Claudia Tate’s Black Women Writers at Work

This is your daily reminder to appreciate your friends, and tell them so.

✨ thank you @saribotton for selecting my essay this week ✨

ICYMI—send me your poems tonight!! Subs open at 7 EST HAD

Doing anything:

Did you know Sesame Street was originally created for black and brown inner city kids? A THREAD

Yes, workshopping and all that good stuff. But here are the real reasons you need a close writing community: lovelies to whom you can say the quiet parts aloud + your people with whom you laugh, cheer each other on, and make each other proud. 🤗💓

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Where are all the black designers? And I'm not talking about like, Telfar or Hood By Air. I mean where is the long history of Black Americans in fashion? One woman realized none of it was being archived. So she decided to do it herself. articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/the-black-fa…

Because we are all our own writer secretaries. Here is a list to make it a tiny bit easier. We now include if folks need letters or recommendations and all financials. bombmagazine.org/articles/fello…

In case ya wanna meet me over there (I think I like it better… )