Featuring: Artists in Queens
As a resident of Queens, I adore the fact this sweet piece of movable, transitory art exists as a way to bring writers together.
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New Essay
A lyric essay I wrote about art and quilting and grief and hope and love featured in Michigan Quarterly Review.
What’s so hard about writing?
Writing is work. I write despite the fear of being judged, of making a mistake, of losing a loved one. I write despite deciding there’s nothing new left to say, that it’s all been said before.
Writing Mood Board
My writing mood board full of quotes, color symbolism, and textile art collected over several years
Interview! Figurative Expressionist and Portrait Artist Betty Southerland
“I think of happiness and joy as the ultimate rebellious act. Art makes joy and joy makes art.”
Author Joe Moran on Good Sentences
“Skilled writers…see the sentence as the ur-unit, the granular element that must be got right or nothing will be right.”
Interview! Cabaret Performer, Monologist, and Storyteller Katherine Rose Turbes!
“I strive to be ‘excruciatingly authentic’ as some have put it. I speak openly about topics that hurt me, in the hope that voicing my experiences might make life easier in some way for others in similar circumstances.”
Interview! Pop-Culture Based Artist and Illustrator Margarita Garza
“I have a cozy studio that I slowly put together over time. I love the smell of it, too—I think all of the accumulated art products have created the distinct smell. My studio smells like paper to me.”
Collage
These pieces by @ingrid_elzinga and @mattchalk make me very happy.
