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Grant Lab #3: Clarity & Translation
🌊 There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes up in grant writing:
You know your project is layered. Formally precise. Doing something complex beneath the surface.
And then you’re told to “be clear.”
Which can feel, at first,...
Radiant Wound, One Year Later
Nearly a year ago, Radiant Wound entered the world.
The book began more than a decade ago, after I moved to Côte d’Ivoire as a freelance journalist. What started as reporting slowly became something else: a long attempt to write toward wit...
Diversifying Voices Is Not the Same as Diversifying Structures
The contemporary poetry canon has widened. But I’m not always convinced the systems that produce literary legitimacy have widened at the same speed.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about literary institutions — not from outside them, but f...
The Donald E. Waterfall Scholarship Fund
Making Space for the Work
There is a difference between writing the work
and being able to articulate it.
Between what a project is
and how it is read.
That distance is not a failure of the work.
It is structural.
Time is uneve...
Grant Lab #2: URGENCY: Why Now?
I was rejected from a grant recently.
Not because the project wasn’t strong.
Or because it lacked clarity.
But because I didn’t answer the question I thought I had answered:
Why is this urgent — now?
I knew why it mattered to me.
I...
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