Matthew Batt

Author of SUGARHOUSE, my book about fixing up a crackhouse (2012 HMH). Also, I run a lot--after my kid, away from dangling modifiers, toward taco trucks.

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

They asked me how I am. Here’s what I said. Thanks to ⁦@Nikwalkotter⁩ and ⁦@MattCBatt⁩ for this beautiful web gathering of writers and artists working out how to artfully abide. #pandemic #stayhome #psychogeography ⁦@SlagGlassCity⁩ https://t.co/jKcCZXoqmQ

[Matthew Batt @MattCBatt]

https://t.co/Zcw6gyoCt4 It’s been a year. A million thanks to Jenae for getting me through it, and to @Nikwalkotter for helping us all write about it.

[Matthew Batt @MattCBatt]

https://t.co/qGFpoNAc1I "…the nation burns, suffers, screams, fights, and revolts. And still I count, measure, and time. My daughter finally above twelve pounds, in the thirtieth percentile for her months, but in the hundred percentile for her length/height [...]" @bojanlouis

[Matthew Batt @MattCBatt]

https://t.co/MfMKBAf0g3 "The United States is allowing people to die at the hands of police. The United States is allowing people to die at the hands of this virus. The United States is a machine of death.” Thanks so much for your words @JakeSkeets

[Todd Lawrence @vivaldojenkins]

From the smallest sticker or tag to the largest mural or street painting -- if you see George Floyd memorial or Anti-racist street art, take a pic and use this google form to upload it. The UST Urban Art Mapping team thanks you! https://t.co/rpNivq86m2

[Sean Prentiss @PrentissSean]

Another beautiful essay from @Nikwalkotter and @MattCBatt 's "How Are We" series. This one is from @ToddKaneko and deals with COVID and COVID-related racism + racism in terms of our burning world today.

A beautiful read by an amazing writer and person.

https://t.co/Z8uZHrvHK1

[Danez @Danez_Smif]

I’m collecting funds to get food, supplies, toys for kids, and anything else necessary for Minneapolis and the rest of the Twin Cities. Today we’re gonna buy for Northside, will use extra in the coming days. Venmo me @ Danez-Smith if you can or will. RT

[Matthew Batt @MattCBatt]

https://t.co/iJbAENJwht "I hope we survive this weekend and live live live unafraid to give and receive tender touch and radical love. I hope to get better at distinguishing healthy choice from decorated destruction." Thank you for your words, @KieseLaymon

[Tanya Ward Goodman @campfiresally]

So happy to contribute to @nikwalkotter and @MattCBatt's HOW WE ARE project. And so grateful for the opportunity to read everyone's posts. A balm in these disconnected times. https://t.co/RvtBdo1S6Q

[Matthew Batt @MattCBatt]

https://t.co/rXKfYmz2do An important read today.

[Sarah Haak @haakwing]

Thank you so much to @Nikwalkotter and @MattCBatt for starting the HOW WE ARE project. It's been so meaningful to read these posts and feel connected to others in these difficult times. Read my contribution here. https://t.co/btGHebdR6O

[Jacqueline Doyle @doylejacq]

"In my age of grief, I am unknowing everything." Beautiful new post by a writer I love, Melanie Rae Thon, in the ongoing "How We Are" series (curated by @Nikwalkotter and @MattCBatt) https://t.co/rpCgjIUan1

[Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer]

Thanks @Nikwalkotter & @MattCBatt for better connecting us and for including me in the HOW WE ARE project. And for letting me air my grievances with @molinahealth, the deadbeat dad of health insurance.
https://t.co/vLO1POqb87

[Matthew Batt @MattCBatt]

https://t.co/Q82Yag2bI8 Please read this amazing post from Allison Gruber. “Someday it will again be early fall, and the sunflowers will quietly be there, even if we aren’t.”

[Jacqueline Doyle @doylejacq]

"Only the world calls me
In its winged and jittery splendor,

Disarrayed by principles I may never
Understand …"

Loving this ongoing site "How We Are" (curated by @Nikwalkotter and @MattCBatt). Check out Katharine Coles' poem today. https://t.co/WrSyxMzSD3

[Matthew Batt @MattCBatt]

Amazing post by Alison Kinney today! https://t.co/eORjj6XLG4

[Matthew Batt @MattCBatt]

https://t.co/vG2eGm1QDt @Nikwalkotter and I are so humbled and grateful for the amazing, heart-wrenching, and beautiful ways in which people are inviting us into their lives, hearts, and homes. New post today by @kaokaliayang and many wonderful others.

[Matthew Batt @MattCBatt]

Thanks so much Heidi! Way to wield that caulk gun!

[Matthew Batt @MattCBatt]

Thank you so much Wendy!

[Matthew Batt @MattCBatt]

https://t.co/L9og8uwSuv So grateful for this amazing letter from my friend @vivaldojenkins So grateful in so many ways.