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For Essay Daily I wrote about the power of flash as feminist reclamation, Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-blurring “Girl,” and writing my flash collection ABBREVIATE.
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I didn't realize that I was haunted by Roger Casement too until I read @wsjaslattery's essay in the Advent Calendar of @EssayingDaily
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New essay out today at @essaydaily re: the difficulties of translation (Eduardo Galeano) and wearing school uniforms, plus a Christmas Eve pun. Yay.
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Silly me, I tagged the wrong Essay Daily account here on Twitter. Rookie mistake. But here, again, is a link to my essay, out today at @EssayingDaily. Thanks to @wjaslattery and @angermonsoon.
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Usually, this time of year @EssayingDaily runs a month-long #Advent calendar, but I think we can all agree that this year is different.
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Writing by the Xmas tree this morning, thinking about my @BallState students--present, past, & future--& I pulled up an old advent I wrote for @EssayingDaily. Here's the thing: I was not wrong about @iSmashFizzle, @happiestwerther, & @BrittanyMeansIt.
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Wrote about Katrina Dodgson’s rollicking and inventive translation of Mario de Andrade’s classic Macunaíma; many thanks to @zerkperkem for his editorial fangs & CRB for publishing it
"If the act of translation is often reduced to a dichotomy of foreignization and domestication, Dodson’s work is an interrogation: of national identity, of what constitutes the foreign and domestic in the first place."
@TMiYL on Macunaíma @NewDirections
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Here’s a sneak peek at how our next massive issue stacks up against the rest. There’s a lot to be excited about! More details coming soon…👀
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Each year on this terrible anniversary I re-post my essay “Pictures of the Floating World: On the Occasion of the 60th Anniv. of the Bombing of Hiroshima” & give thx to @angermonsoon & @EssayingDaily for being a home to such work. essaydaily.org/2014/06/dave-…
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"Careful observation, steady looking. And all the while fixing the larger picture, the greater question, in my head."
from @heareamlee's "The Last Good Day" in @EcotoneMagazine: ecotonemagazine.org/nonficti…
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My essay in @ecotone is out today! It’s about the last good day in a doomed relationship and the life of a rare plant. This one was years in the making. So many thanks to everyone who lent their time and edits, especially editor @aproflection 💓🌿
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FINAL FOUR game thread (2/2): (6) @Numanofficial, “Cars” (essay @Elana_Brooklyn) vs (2) Nena, “99 Luftballons” (essay @THEsisterjanet). Which is the raddest song? Read, listen, vote by 9am 3/30 here and at: marchxness.com/final4-nenavs…
47%Cars
53%99 Luftballons
422 votes • Final results Essay Daily retweeted
FINAL FOUR game thread (1/2): (5) @SoftCellHQ, “Tainted Love” (essay @icooper435) vs (16) @Robbasemusic & DJ E-Z Rock, “It Takes Two” (essay @poorerthandead). Which is the raddest song? Read, listen, vote by 9am 3/30 here and at: marchxness.com/final4-softce…
41%It Takes Two
59%Tainted Love
425 votes • Final results Essay Daily retweeted
Any MFA programs moving in the direction of writing for digital media (as well traditional)--interested in hybridity, etc? Thinking about a panel for AWP. We just moved the MFA into the Creative Media Institute (film, animation, journalism, etc.) and it's been revelatory.
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ELITE 8 DAY 2 game thread (1/2): (5) Scandal, “The Warrior” (essay @alexjohnberge) vs (2) Nena, “99 Luftballons” (essay @THEsisterjanet). Which is the raddest song? Read, listen, vote by 9am 3/28 here and at: marchxness.com/elite8-nenavs…
36%The Warrior
64%99 Luftballons
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ELITE 8 DAY 2 game thread (2/2): (16) @ Robbasemusic & DJ E-Z Rock, “It Takes Two” (essay @poorerthandead) vs (10) @Limahl_Official, “The Neverending Story” (essay @eekshecried)). Which is the raddest song? Read, listen, vote by 9am 3/28 here and at: marchxness.com/elite8-limahl…
60%It Takes Two
40%The Neverending Story
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SWEET SIXTEEN Day 4 game thread (2/2): (14) Talk Talk, “It’s My Life” (essay @markwallace) vs (2) Nena, “99 Luftballons” (essay @thesisterjanet). Which is the raddest song? Read, listen, vote by 9am 3/24 here and at: marchxness.com/sweet16-talkt…
44%It's My Life
56%99 Luftballons
260 votes • Final results Essay Daily retweeted
SWEET SIXTEEN Day 4 thread (1/2): (11) Timbuk 3, “The Future’s So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)” (essay @substockman) vs (10) @Limahl_Official, “The Neverending Story” (essay @eekshecried). Which is the raddest song? Read, listen, vote by 9am 3/24: marchxness.com/sweet16-limah…
48%The Future's So Bright…
52%The Neverending Story
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FYI BADASSES:
If you'd like to enter the lottery to write for the 2024 tournament (theme tbd as of this writing), here's the link to do so: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…