Dear Diary,
- Latest review: Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric
- Spent the month re-reading books from my childhood: The Twenty-One Baloons by William Pène duBois and The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
- Also reading Èireann Lorsung and Matthea Harvey (see left), and more Harvey on deck
- Have a huge reading coming up in January—keep your eyes peeled for details! (Twitter or this Events page are good places to watch.)
The last month has been about reading and listening for me. Here are some things that have occupied a lot of my brainspace lately:
- Danez Smith's "not an elegy for Mike Brown" is incredible
- This phenomenal essay by Jaswinder Bolina up on the Poetry Foundation's website. It's an eloquent critique of the MFA system and the privilege necessary to get an MFA, and be a writer in general (Bolina has an MFA, for what it's worth). Particularly interesting, to me, is the section in which Bolina takes on the perennial articles about whether or not poetry matters.
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