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Laura Atkins, children’s literature specialist

Laura Atkins, children’s literature specialist
This is my second interview with children’s literature specialist (and my good friend) Laura Atkins. If you missed my first interview with her, be sure to check it out—and stop by Laura’s new blog.  Most importantly, read her essay on white privilege in the children’s . . . ... Read More...

TayariJones / http://www.tayarijones.com

The Lucky Charms Method For 1st Drafts

Lucky Charms! Originally uploaded by Carolyn Coles In my graduate workshop last week, there was a student struggling with a memoir. He was frustrated about how to wind from one moment of his life to the next. What he... ... Read More...

Emily L. Hauser / http://www.angryblacklady.com

Book review: Palestinians narrating.

It’s an axiom in my field (“Middle Eastern Studies, broadly speaking) that “Arabs aren’t allowed to narrate” — and it’s a pretty accurate one, at that, at least in the West (or: It was until last Friday. Perhaps the Egyptians are now ushering in a new age for the Arab peoples . . . ... Read More...

drjelks / http://theblackbottom.com

Tuesday Poet: Rachel Melville

Tuesday Poet: Rachel Melville
Rachel Melville is an MFA candidate at Naropa University. She is an editor foronline literary magazine Eastown Fiction and is currently interning with On The Town Magazine in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In her free time she is working on her first children’s novel, Emmy and the Secret of . . . ... Read More...

elliottzetta / http://zettaelliott.wordpress.com

round UP

Thanks to Nathalie at Multiculturalism Rocks! for posting this great review of Wish; this was my favorite part: If I were to walk by a fountain after midnight and to throw a penny in it, here’s the wish I’d make: For A WISH AFTER MIDNIGHT to be adapted on the big screen. I can’t wait [...] ... Read More...

rboylorn / http://crunkfeministcollective.wordpress.com

no love

i don’t write love poetry anymore or/poetry about love my heart and bed are empty my thoughts a distant memory of/what love used to be * i once wrapped my life & legs around him watched from the outside as i lost myself in someone else who didn’t lose himself in me it was an [...] ... Read More...

phillisremastered / http://phillisremastered.wordpress.com

Happy Birthday, Audre Lorde

Happy Birthday, Audre Lorde
And thank you–AGAIN– to friend and poet Sharan Strange for reminding me about Audre Lorde’s birthday, too! Yes, my mind has been bad all this week, y’all.  If it wasn’t for Facebook today, I would be forgetting important Sisters left and right and that would be . . . ... Read More...

moyazb / http://crunkfeministcollective.wordpress.com

Praise the Lorde!

Praise the Lorde!
  On this day, in 1934, Audre Lorde was born. She named herself “black, lesbian, feminist, mother, poet warrior” and gave us the words to do the same. Although many quotes will be in circulation today, I’d like to offer this one up, as a particularly good example of . . . ... Read More...