new book borrowing policy

earlier this week, i was with kalia, marty, and their child, iona, and a funny moment happened that i think is worth sharing.

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just cause you're on the bench doesn't mean your team isn't winning

there is a really excellent section of this podcast where franny and danez, the two poet hosts of this (my favorite) poetry podcast, share their thinking about what it means to have a crew. i’m just going to drop the bullet points below, but you should listen for yourself if you want the ground truth. the link is timestamped to the part of the conversation i’m talking about.

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thanks for that conversation years ago

in the past ten days, two or three different people (alex, sam, and maybe one other) have said something of this effect to me:

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book review: homegoing

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown

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on reading octavia e. butler

so, the octavia e. butler come up is real. i personally attribute it most directly at scale to one adrienne maree brown, but i know it’s more complicated than that. anyway…

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