🚨Rep. Maxwell Frost after touring “Alligator Alcatraz”: “Thirty-two bodies crammed per cage, six cages per tent. People screaming ‘Help me, I’m a U.S. citizen.’ Drinking water pumped from the same toilet they’re forced to use. It’s filth, it’s cruelty, it’s America’s name on

andrea gibson

“I suppose I love this life, in spite of my clenched fist” - Andrea Gibson

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for this stance. New generation of refuseniks is supported by the old, many of whom spent months in jail already

to be clear if someone who stands up for trans rights in the south wants to pair that with some digs about the way liberals talk then I think that’s just fine

Goodbye to one of the most beautiful poets of our times, Andrea Gibson

Eric Garner was killed on this day in 2014. If I ever get to teach a class on how to write about other people, this would be the first piece we would look at.

Andrea Gibson • The Madness Vase How transformative it is to let ourselves write the truth— this, as has been so evident here over the years, is the story of my (writing) life. Thinking how, in class, I used to quote from Shadowlands — “we read to know we are not alone”

best idea of the summer: re-reading Carson's Eros the Bittersweet

this comment on my essay about love as conversation has me crying 😭😭😭 LOVE IS REAL

The way Lydia Davis plays these intricate little logic games in her stories ☺️

Lucie Brock-Broido

And suddenly

Cormac McCarthy, what a line

i love offering things to people. would you like half of this pastry. a grape. do you need me to do anything. can i help. would you like my seat. a cup of tea. a chat. a game. my hand. my prayers

i save you the last slice of my orange i know we will need to eat more soon look at how my worlds want your worlds look at our worlds wanting other worlds porous the mist we love by