Join me for my upcoming writing class on June 25th with @sfgrotto ! We'll be diving into our writing for the second half of the year with a workshop to help you refresh and reset your writing goals. Check out the details and register below: https://t.co/tUi4RXopl1
ARTogether is hosting a Mentorship Hub for Poets & Literary Artists on dec 10 & I get to co-facilitate a workshop with @mawsheinwin! Register here: https://t.co/s2B6WjJhNj
Children and schools should never be targets. This isn’t a matter of opinion — it’s international law.
I continue my call for a ceasefire. The Israeli government must end these indiscriminate attacks that have cost thousands of innocent Palestinian children and families their lives.
@AmLarks@sfgrotto Hey! It was great to meet you at a Reading + Meeting over the summer. I’ll be offering the class probably sometime in the spring - keep your eye out for it! And hope to see you again at upcoming Grotto events.
Join me for my upcoming writing class on June 25th with @sfgrotto ! We'll be diving into our writing for the second half of the year with a workshop to help you refresh and reset your writing goals. Check out the details and register below: https://t.co/tUi4RXopl1
The Rooted & Written Core Faculty are experts in a wide range of writing genres. Apply now for a fellowship and the opportunity to work with these esteemed writers.
Apply now! Deadline: 10/21
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SF Bay Area-based QTBIPOC poets -- Foglifter welcomes submissions for our annual Start A Riot! chapbook prize by November 1. $2500 total prize. Please submit & share with those you know!
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Here's the spectacular Core Faculty for Rooted & Written! Applications open. Forty-six fellows will be selected. Deadline: 10/16. Apply now!
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The Israeli government has cut off food, water, and fuel to 2 million people inside Gaza. Collective punishment is not only contrary to international law, it is inhumane and illogical. How will this deescalate the violence rather than radicalize many more? It is madness.
When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents.
In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy.
It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.
WRITERS OF COLOR: Applications are now open for Rooted and Written, our fully-funded writers conference in San Francisco from Nov. 4-12.
Applications are due Oct. 16! Details: https://t.co/idRdmDKcgW
Join us for a dynamic group discussion on generative AI and the arts facilitated by dialogue specialist @MonicaCure. Features a panel of artists and experts, including @mutalenkonde, founder of @ai4theppl, and @LairdH, a journalist and author.
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