Now*ing
Lightsey DarstWriting, parenting, and living in the present tense
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Pure at Heart
I had an uncomfortable realization the other day: the subject of my current book is writing. Uncomfortable because I’m always trying to resist being a writer who writes about writing, even if writing is always at issue (because medium will...
The challenge of Alice; outer and inner space
Alice Notley died in Paris in May. I can’t eulogize her here; you could read this, or this, or this to learn more. For me, she was the poet to show that you can have a powerful voice without becoming a publicist for power, can shape a thril...
“Thrown into the river”
Have I ever explained how much unwriting goes into now*ing—how often I write most of an “episode,” set it aside because it doesn’t quite sing, and come back later only to find that my now has become a then?
That’s happened a lot lately. W...
Missive from a shifting
Can I do this now? Can I. . . can I get my thinking out in sentences? Can I make the kind of sense I care about before the scene changes? Before the scene changes again? Again? Again.
Here are some things I’m thinking about: crying...
Time as a body
Last time I promised something on Chappell Roan. That was early November, and now everything I write on her seems banal. Can it be that her outcry—which just a minute ago seemed so fresh, so true—has been absorbed as a private good for wome...
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Writing from Durham, North Carolina. Poetry published by Coffee House Press (recently, The Heiress/Ghost Acres, 2023).
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