The Body Still Isn’t A Temple: On Pregnancy and the Cult of Purity
It took me about two months of throwing up almost every day before I asked for a prescription for...
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Women and Their Friends
We needed a better vocabulary for women friendship. Good literature is the most robust means of developing a new lexicon to talk about an old and elastic thing.
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Announcing the Black Words Matter Anthology: Poems by Baltimore Students
Two years ago this week, Freddie Gray died of spinal cord injuries after being in a coma resulting...
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Art is Both Necessary and Not Enough
Because 100% isn’t enough right now, 200% of book sales (full cover price doubled) through...
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Hose-water Cereal and Day-Old Scones: A Single Stroke Seven Menu by Lavinia Ludlow
The characters in Lavinia Ludlow’s Single Stroke Seven (Casperian Books) may not enjoy the...
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Thoughts on Readings and Small Press Publishing
Resistance, Connection, and Readings Last week, I went to an excellent reading hosted by Scott...
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Not a Very Intelligent Perspective: Racism and the Failures of White Thought
A student from Afghanistan told me a story about an American man who said he wanted to free Afghan...
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2015 Year in Review
2015 was a whole year in two parts. Amy McDaniel writes about starting Real Pants, a new career, and 12 books.
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On Reading Privately: Suzanne Scanlon’s Promising Young Women
I promised to write about Promising Young Women for the first entry in my summer reading journal,...
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Interview with Amanda Johnston, Organizer of Black Poets Speak Out
Amanda Johnston is a poet and one of the organizers of Black Poets Speak Out (BPSO), which started...
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Reconstruction Reading List: Eric Foner and David Blight
South Carolina and every other state and entity and person must stop flying the Confederate flag:...
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Neighborhood Food Drive: Halle Butler on Screenwriting
Halle Butler, author of the intensely excellent new novel Jillian (Curbside Splendor), is at work...
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Summer Reading List Roundup!
Reading summer reading lists is, apparently, at the top of my summer reading list. I think...
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Thirteen Ways to Interact with the Writers of Color Google Doc
Give thanks for this amazing resource: A Google Doc that introduces and re-introduces you to...
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Black Words Matter: Poems by Baltimore Students
Black Lives Matter, and Black Words Matter. The nonprofit organization Writers in Baltimore...
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Partial Transcript of Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Press Conference on Freddie Gray
These are excerpts from Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s press conference on...
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Four Punk Rock Prompts from Mindela Ruby
This week’s writing prompt comes from Mindela Ruby, author of the new novel Mosh It Up (Pen-L),...
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Old Bay and “Kathmandu” by Banira Giri
Eat: Baltimore You can put Old Bay on popcorn. You can sprinkle it on cucumbers if that’s...
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You Want a Prompt? Here.
Here you go. Here’s a prompt. First watch this: Then watch this: Then write something....
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Creamed Kale, Subpar Ribeye, and Ad Stories
Eat: Wednesday, our host Bryan’s Volvo broke down right outside baggage claim....
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