Photos of Heather Cox Richardson speaking at the National Press Club, 16 Jan. 2025, now available exclusively on Alamy: https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/1317563/dcnotables.html
I have no interest in being a novelist, but essayist, man of letters, raconteur, and novalla-ist?
Yes—I'd cop to those. Novelists are too puffy.
Wrote about finding myself in E.B. White.
https://joebelknapwall.com/figure-out-who-you-are/#more-1802
Song of the Day November 30 2024
In remembrance of the birth of Gordon Parks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Parks
What Gordon Parks Saw (a brief documentary)
https://youtu.be/dcVOItrZX6U?si=hUteGUjRnZmLGwI6
#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #November30 #GordonParks #RenaissanceMan #raconteur #photographer #essayist #writer #activist #CivilRIghts #HumanRights #documentarian #director #LifeMagazine #poet #artist #EssenceMagazine #composer #musician #Music #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s 1980s #1990s #2000s
Song of the Day November 30 2024
In remembrance of the birth of Gordon Parks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Parks
What Gordon Parks Saw (a brief documentary)
https://youtu.be/dcVOItrZX6U?si=hUteGUjRnZmLGwI6
#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #November30 #GordonParks #RenaissanceMan #raconteur #photographer #essayist #writer #activist #CivilRIghts #HumanRights #documentarian #director #LifeMagazine #poet #artist #EssenceMagazine #composer #musician #Music #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s 1980s #1990s #2000s
When the living rot on the bodies of the dead
When the combatants’ teeth become knives
When words lose their meaning and become arsenic
When the aggressors’ nails become claws
When old friends hurry to join the carnage
When the victors’ eyes become live shells
When clergymen pick up the hammer and crucify
When officials open the door to the enemy
When the mountain peoples’ feet weigh like elephants
When roses grow only in cemeteries
When they eat the Palestinian’s liver before he’s even dead
When the sun itself has no other purpose than being a shroud
the human tide moves on . . .
By Etel Adnan, “XXXIX” from The Arab Apocalypse.
Etel Adnan was a #Lebanese #American #poet , #essayist & #VisualArtist. Adnan always lived between different languages & cultures. She spoke French, English, Greek & Turkish & lived in Paris, Beirut & California.
#Art was like home to her, something to hold on to; a language that transcends borders and cultures.
‘Colours make visible what the person is trying to say, but silent’.
One of her best-known works is Sitt Marie Rose (1978), in which she writes about the horrors of the Lebanese civil war.
Adnan began writing in French, but gradually discovered the language’s colonial undertones.
Etel Adnan grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, which was under French mandate at the time. Everyone learned French at school. Arabic, which most people spoke, became an inferior language.
Muhammed Abdullah al-Ahari (born January 6, 1965, as Ray Allen Rudder) is an American #essayist, historian, teacher, and writer on the topics of American Islam, #BlackNationalist groups, #heterodox Islamic groups, #Bosniaks, and modern #occultism. He has also taught at the #IslamicFoundationSchool in #VillaParkIllinois.
Night Streets, Barcelona, Spain #travel #essayist #photography #barcelona #spain
Le #poème du dimanche : ‘‘D’ailes et d’empreintes’’ de #Hubert #Haddad
Né à #Tunis en 1947, Hubert Haddad, est #poète, #romancier, peintre, #essayiste. #Auteur d’une œuvre importante et multiforme, il fonde en 1969, la #revue de #poésie Le Point d’être dans la mouvance du surréalisme
#poem #poet #novelist painter #essayist #Author #magazine #poetry #tunisia #tunisie #تونس
#gaza #genocide #palestine #israel #personal #experience #novelist #writer #essayist #susanalbuhawa #holocaust
Writer and scientist Susan Abulhawa is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children’s organization dedicated to uplifting #Palestinian #children. She wrote the following piece during her stay in #Rafah in February and early March.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/history-will-record-israel-committed-holocaust/45006
Remembering James Gunn:
Tapping into Your Muse for Creativity
an essay by Wendy Van Camp
An essay about creativity and my experience speaking at IASFS India, a literary science fiction writing conference in Bangalore, India.
Is now available to read on Medium!
https://medium.com/p/44231545654a
Profile: https://medium.com/@wvancamp
#writingtips #essays #essayist #writingcommunity
#writinghelp #india #indiasciencefiction #jamesgunn #muse
An article I wrote has published in the October issue of Indie Author Magazine. While the magazine is subscriber based, I hope you'll check out the issue and enjoy all the articles.
Time for Show and Tell:
Reexamining the Golden Rule of Fiction
Part of the "Devil in the Details" series.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born #OTD in 1854 at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Oscar Wilde by William & Daniel Downey, c. 1881 - in or before 1891. Rijksmuseum.
Today I found out that my essay “The Anxious Writer” has been purchased by Open Minds Quarterly, my story “This is the Time Just before Spider Woman Meets Kiviuq” has been purchased by the Delta Literary Arts Society, and my story “Wolf Mother” has begun its editorial process at Augur Magazine. I also have two short stories coming out in an anthology called Mihko Kiskisiwin (Blood Memory) published by the Indigenous Poets Society, possibly as soon as this December. https://www.openmindsquarterly.com @indigenousauthors #WritingCommunity #Essayist #CNF #ShortStory #WritersOfMastodon #AuthorsOfMastodon #LivedExperience #Anxiety #MentalHealth
