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Weird
“She said But you’re weird! as if / to say a repetition of it would / impel me to remember / it was not to be treated as a compliment, / an identity, a friend.” A poem for National Poetry Month. Continue reading
Table 2 (poem)
“…Sustained / by statisticians, I am a maker / of passionless tables that summarize / in numbers the reasoned philosophy / of this well-ordered State’s philosopher-kings.” A poem for National Poetry Month.
Posted in Poems, Social justice
Tagged Alaska Justice Forum, James P. Carse, National Poetry Month, poem, The Religious Case Against Belief (book), UAA Justice Center, writing
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“Totally like whatever, you know?” by Taylor Mali
“Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker / it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. / You have to speak with it, too.” A poem by Taylor Mali for National Poetry Month.
Vashti Speaks for Herself
“He said that? you heard him? The bastard! / I used to love him. Some ways I still do… / but honey, don’t believe all you hear. / He can put it on Larry King Live, / he can write it up in the Bible / for every preacher to preach, / it’ll still be a goddamn lie….” A poem for National Poetry Month.
Mielikki
“When they told me who to put on the throne / I said, no, I will not be ruled. / The gods they showed me were tyrants
who displeased me with their judgments, / their injustice, yes, their cruelty.” — A poem for National Poetry Month.
Posted in Mistress of Woodland, Poems
Tagged household gods, Mielikki, National Poetry Month, poem, writing
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Whatever in hell I’ve been doing…
I haven’t been writing many posts on Henkimaa lately, but I have been (1) writing on Bent Alaska; (2) organizing my writing; (3) writing; (4) thinking about writing posts on Henkimaa.
Posted in Cold, Journal, LGBTQA, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Anchorage Write Club, Bent Alaska, Scrivener, writing
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The Daily Tweets 2010-11-13: NaNoWriMo halfway point
Today: 4665 #NaNoWriMo words; total now 25,239 – more than halfway there, & 2 days ahead of the game. #fb # Now packing up to go see “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” at the Bear Tooth with my … Continue reading
Posted in NaNoWriMo, The Daily Tweets
Tagged NaNoWriMo 2010, writing
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The Daily Tweets 2010-11-11: NaNoWriMo write-in
Twitter Tools (a WordPress plugin) keeps on malfunctioning and posting the days tweets with the wrong date and several hours later than they’re supposed to be posted. So I keep on having to come in & change the date, post … Continue reading
Posted in NaNoWriMo, The Daily Tweets
Tagged Joe Miller, NaNoWriMo 2010, writing
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The Daily Tweets 2010-11-06: A lovely NaNovember day (7.5K words)
Saturdays are writing days for me. But in November, every day’s a writing day, thanks to NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month. We’re now a week into NaNovember, as I call it, & I started it way behind. But by … Continue reading
Posted in NaNoWriMo, The Daily Tweets
Tagged NaNoWriMo 2010, writing
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Blog changes, & NaNoWriMo
I got fed up with my old template, so I’m changing it. If you’ve got respiratory issues, you might want to wear a mask, because I’m gonna be kicking up some dust around here. But right now: I’m off to … Continue reading