Fayre Makeig

editor, poetry and nonfiction

[Fayre Makeig @fayremakeig]

Prof. Fatemeh Keshavarz (a scholar of the work of Maulana Rumi, among others) looks at one misleading word at a time in this clear-thinking essay: “Speaking Clearly about our Wars is a Favor to Ourselves”
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[Fayre Makeig @fayremakeig]

Geopolitical Narcissism via @Harpers https://t.co/KxzlRS6kyh

[Uche Nduka @UcheNdukaPoet]

My new book-FACING YOU-will be out next https://t.co/eOOhkDRvhm may place your orders now.

[Uche Nduka @UcheNdukaPoet]

Bloom

We won't cover up the lynchings.
We won't hide the stretching anomy.

Let the props keep trembling.

Let be the broken fence.

[Joy Harjo @JoyHarjo]

This 1946 map shows how Native American trails became the streets of Brooklyn | 6sqft https://t.co/cyLC5i6I2A

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

I'm sometimes called ”political". But I've never supported any political party, politician or ideology. I communicate the science and the risks of failing to act on it.
And the fact that the politics needed don't exist today, neither to the right, left nor center. ->

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

“Well I am telling you there is hope. I have seen it.
But it does not come from governments or corporations.
It comes from the people.”

Here’s a small part from my speech today at the #cop25 in Madrid.

[Uche Nduka @UcheNdukaPoet]

To ship & receive

I was trying to get the sky
To bend

After a feud they deport
A white spider

[Uche Nduka @UcheNdukaPoet]

Hourglass bent to highnoon.

[Uche Nduka @UcheNdukaPoet]

in the hollows
of this day
i do not recollect
these emotions
in tranquility-

a folkcraft to applaud
when silence becomes
an appliance as a windword
twists homeward

[Uche Nduka @UcheNdukaPoet]

In Praise of Lucille Clifton https://t.co/OevfD5aeY7

[Uche Nduka @UcheNdukaPoet]

You could go on a great ride with & through a poem.#poetry

[Michigan Quarterly Review @mqr_tweets]

Our Spring 2019 Special Issue on Iran is here! https://t.co/wiIdDNf1uR

[Fayre Makeig @fayremakeig]

“Your self and your people are indistinguishable from each other, really, in spite of the quarrels you...” https://t.co/ehEUEGQccn

[Fayre Makeig @fayremakeig]

I have two children now and would like to sometimes describe things that they say and do so I can remember.... https://t.co/QOAwsFkf5Y

[Fayre Makeig @fayremakeig]

"I want to be an honest man and a good writer." - James Baldwin http://t.co/oHGeM4IY

[Fayre Makeig @fayremakeig]

"Every one of us is like a man who sees things in a dream and thinks that he knows them perfectly and then wa… http://t.co/i01sTKNt

[Fayre Makeig @fayremakeig]

A young James Baldwin in Paris: "I wrote four novels before I published one, before I’d even left America. I … http://t.co/OLYeOWIp