prompt: write of a myth. consider this list of legendary creatures from japan. Amaterasu – A sun goddess. Datsue-ba – An old woman seated in the underworld who steals clothes […]
Year: 2014
napowrimo challenge – 30 poems, starting now
this morning sheila stowell posted about napowrimo on the facebook. i had never heard of it before – a month long challenge to write thirty poems in thirty days. they […]
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as go the birds
wrote this odd little poem in iowa and it keeps tripping through my mind. thought i’d share it: so many there’s birds float flying past my seventh story window in […]
packing my octavia butler bag (reflections on the field innovation team boot camp)
i am returning from a gathering that felt like a redirection, or next thrilling iteration, of my life resources. a few months ago, my friend renna reached out to me […]
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on the 10th anniversary of black women rock
first thing we saw in the theater of the charles wright museum was nina simone on a screen speaking about that blackness, grounding us in the assumption of our beauty, […]
go on sheddy
last night i found out that a young member of my extended community has passed on. her name is sheddy. she was in the car when i got scooped from […]
some sugar detox recipes and snack options
i ate a lot of great food during my sugar cleanse and i wanted to share some recipes here that fit within the allowed foods. for ease, especially in the […]
10 sugar cleanse tips for success
so i am nearing the end of a 21 day sugar cleanse. it has been a completely transformational experience. i am at the end of day 18 now and really […]
healing out loud/claiming frida
(drafted this last week on the road) feb 24, 2014 last week i received my contributor copies of the anthology dear sister: letters from survivors of sexual violence. my piece […]
stark raving craving
i am going to be incoherent with y’all, perhaps only as someone in the throes of a detox can be. i am five days into this sugar cleanse. apparently this […]