New #interview:
"As opposed to what happened (narrative mode) or what it meant (rhetorical/assay mode), lyric essay is trying to convey what an experience felt like."
—Heidi Czerwiec in conversation with @amy_schein
https://t.co/hWekbTnPAg
I'm a Black disabled woman. I survived cancer, a stroke, trauma, chronic pain. So there's a (not so small) part of me that can't believe that I get to wake up everyday & take care of other disabled folks. But I do. I talked about that & a lot more with the incomparable @meekslisa
Thank you to Natalie Serber for contributing an excerpt from her first published piece “The Day You Stopped Being a Cat” from @fourthgenre !!
https://t.co/jH1k9oghv0
My first Pushcart nomination!! All my gratitude to the @EcotoneMagazine editors for championing my work. This little essay on language and heritage will be in the forthcoming issue 🚂
New craft essay:
"In the reality of McIlwain’s fiction, they’re fishermen, millworkers, bartenders, dog breeders, oil diggers, fortune tellers, and one-handed drummers, all surviving...."
— @clairepolders re @jolene_mcilwain, "Beyond Binary Thinking"
https://t.co/xBhSVrW0K5