
Last Saturday, I held a Post-Election Community Writing Circle at the Hugo House. We packed a room with some sitting on the floor against the walls. We were people of many ages, genders, races, and emotions. Everyone wrote, nearly everyone…
Last Saturday, I held a Post-Election Community Writing Circle at the Hugo House. We packed a room with some sitting on the floor against the walls. We were people of many ages, genders, races, and emotions. Everyone wrote, nearly everyone…
The first time Patricia Smith made me sob in public, I was a woman in a room full of women. And when I say full, I mean full. Me: sitting on the floor, criss-cross applesauce, like a little girl. It…