Author of SUGARHOUSE, my book about fixing up a crackhouse (2012 HMH). Also, I run a lot--after my kid, away from dangling modifiers, toward taco trucks.
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Matthew Batt retweeted
They asked me how I am. Here’s what I said. Thanks to @Nikwalkotter and @MattCBatt for this beautiful web gathering of writers and artists working out how to artfully abide. #pandemic #stayhome #psychogeography @SlagGlassCity howweare.org/post/barrie-jea… – at Chicago, IL
howweare.org/post/matthew-ba… It’s been a year. A million thanks to Jenae for getting me through it, and to @Nikwalkotter for helping us all write about it.
howweare.org/post/bojan-loui… "…the nation burns, suffers, screams, fights, and revolts. And still I count, measure, and time. My daughter finally above twelve pounds, in the thirtieth percentile for her months, but in the hundred percentile for her length/height [...]" @bojanlouis
howweare.org/post/jake-skeet… "The United States is allowing people to die at the hands of police. The United States is allowing people to die at the hands of this virus. The United States is a machine of death.” Thanks so much for your words @JakeSkeets
Matthew Batt retweeted
From the smallest sticker or tag to the largest mural or street painting -- if you see George Floyd memorial or Anti-racist street art, take a pic and use this google form to upload it. The UST Urban Art Mapping team thanks you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Matthew Batt retweeted
Another beautiful essay from @Nikwalkotter and @MattCBatt 's "How Are We" series. This one is from @ToddKaneko and deals with COVID and COVID-related racism + racism in terms of our burning world today.
A beautiful read by an amazing writer and person.
howweare.org/post/w-todd-kan…
howweare.org/post/kiese-laym… "I hope we survive this weekend and live live live unafraid to give and receive tender touch and radical love. I hope to get better at distinguishing healthy choice from decorated destruction." Thank you for your words, @KieseLaymon
Matthew Batt retweeted
So happy to contribute to @nikwalkotter and @MattCBatt's HOW WE ARE project. And so grateful for the opportunity to read everyone's posts. A balm in these disconnected times. howweare.org/post/tanya-ward…
Matthew Batt retweeted
Thank you so much to @Nikwalkotter and @MattCBatt for starting the HOW WE ARE project. It's been so meaningful to read these posts and feel connected to others in these difficult times. Read my contribution here. howweare.org/post/sarah-haak
Matthew Batt retweeted
"In my age of grief, I am unknowing everything." Beautiful new post by a writer I love, Melanie Rae Thon, in the ongoing "How We Are" series (curated by @Nikwalkotter and @MattCBatt) howweare.org/post/melanie-ra…
Matthew Batt retweeted
Thanks @Nikwalkotter & @MattCBatt for better connecting us and for including me in the HOW WE ARE project. And for letting me air my grievances with @molinahealth, the deadbeat dad of health insurance.
howweare.org/post/jason-thay…
howweare.org/post/allison-gr… Please read this amazing post from Allison Gruber. “Someday it will again be early fall, and the sunflowers will quietly be there, even if we aren’t.”
Matthew Batt retweeted
"Only the world calls me
In its winged and jittery splendor,
Disarrayed by principles I may never
Understand …"
Loving this ongoing site "How We Are" (curated by @Nikwalkotter and @MattCBatt). Check out Katharine Coles' poem today. howweare.org/post/katharine-…
howweare.org/post/kao-kalia-… @Nikwalkotter and I are so humbled and grateful for the amazing, heart-wrenching, and beautiful ways in which people are inviting us into their lives, hearts, and homes. New post today by @kaokaliayang and many wonderful others.
Thanks so much Heidi! Way to wield that caulk gun!
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howweare.org/post/todd-lawre… So grateful for this amazing letter from my friend @vivaldojenkins So grateful in so many ways.