Monthly Archives: December 2021

Books Acquired Recently: Post-Holiday Edition

I received some money as a holiday gift, and of course immediately used some of it to buy books! Bellamy, Dodie. Academonia. San Francisco: Krupskaya, 2006. I read Bellamy’s When the Sick Rule the World last week and loved it, so I decided to seek out more of her essays. When I went online toContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Post-Holiday Edition”

Books Acquired Recently: Holiday Gift Edition

I received a number of books as gifts for the holidays. Here they are: Chansky, Ricia Anne, and Marci Denesiuk, eds. Mi María: Surviving the Storm. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2021. Davis, Chloe O. The Queens’ English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2021. Florer-Bixler, Melissa. How To Have anContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Holiday Gift Edition”

Books Acquired Recently

Bellamy, Dodie. When the Sick Rule the World. South Pasadena, CA: Semiotext(e), 2015. Kapil, Bhanu. Schizophrene. Callicoon, NY: Nightboat Books, 2011. Patel, Shailja. Migritude. New York: Kaya Press, 2010. I made all three of these book purchases after a stellar last class of the semester earlier this week. In the case of Patel, we readContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Books Acquired Recently

Gundy, Jeff. Wind Farm: Landscape with Stories and Towers. Loveland, OH: Dos Madres Press, 2021. Gundy has long been one of my favorite authors. His new book arrived in the mail yesterday! Hendrix, Raye. Every Journal is a Plague Journal. Morongo Valley, CA: Bottlecap Press, 2021. I recently heard about this chapbook about having OCDContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Books Acquired Recently

Forché, Carolyn, ed. Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness. New York: W.W. Norton, 1993. A professor of mine mentioned this anthology in class last week. I had never heard of it, but am very much interested in poetry as activism, so I decided to check it out. I was able to find an inexpensive usedContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Writing Activity, November 2021

Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself–to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of the pandemic (Which is still going on! Keep wearing masks!)–and partlyContinue reading “Writing Activity, November 2021”