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 our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, May 2025”
Category Archives: Literature
Books Acquired Recently
Beachy, Kirsten Eve. Martyrs and Chickens: Confessions of a Granola Mennonite. Telford, PA: DreamSeeker Books, 2025. There has been a significant wave of Mennonite memoirs over the past few years, with Beachy’s being the latest entry. Glenn, Joshua, and Carol Hayes, eds. Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance. New York: Princeton Architectural Press,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Carl-Klassen, Abigail. Village Mechanics. McAllen, TX: FlowerSong Press, 2025. I blurbed this excellent collection of poems from one of the most important Mennonite poets writing today. My copy recently arrived in the mail. Lopez, Robert. Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure. Columbus, OH: Two Dollar Radio, 2023. I heard aboutContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Writing Activity, April 2025
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 our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, April 2025”
Writing Activity, March 2025
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 our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, March 2025”
Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition
Akbar, Kaveh, ed. The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine. 2022. London: Penguin Books, 2023. I enjoy Akbar’s own work, and I am very interested in the intersection of literature and religion, and I am obsessed with Penguin paperbacks, so when I came across this book while browsing at the StrandContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition”
Writing Activity, February 2025
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 our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, February 2025”
Books Acquired Recently
Amelina, Victoria. Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2025. I recently heard about this book from a colleague at work. It is a diary about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russians killed Amelina in 2023. Nin, Anaïs. Incest: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition
Fabre, Gilles, ed. and trans. Early Morning Firefly: An Adaptation of the Japanese Saijiki. Dublin: Fishing Cat Press, 8 November 2024. There are very few English-language saijiki (compendiums of haiku season words), so when I recently heard about this one I decided to buy it. Following the Japanese publishing custom, it has an exact dateContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition”
Writing Activity, January 2025
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 our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, January 2025”
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