Michael Kleber-Diggs and I are excited to offer "Igniting Creativity," an online creative writing workshop on Sat. 8/8/26! #TheMultitudes
Registration information + two poems by Michael, and a prompt inspired by them
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Because in a poll, 90% of Republicans in Minnesota prefer the old Minnesota State Flag to the new one...
I am re-posting my July 2020 article I originally posted on Medium (available to members only over there)...
Asians in Space + a Bao Phi poem + "Shakari" & that BLADE RUNNER "wet look" (aka Asian) Urban Streetscape in THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU...
This post is dedicated to my son, who was born in 2000 (Year of the Metal Dragon).
Happy National Poetry Month! (belatedly)
"Different Ways to Pray" by Naomi Shihab Nye + a writing prompt
Monsters in the Cryosphere: John Carpenter's THE THING
and the beautiful poem "Black Mythology" by Jonathan Teklit + a writing prompt
The frontier isn't a single place; it's an idea; it's a pathology; it's a violence against nature itself.
Thank you to LitHub. Abolish ICE. A poem by Robert Hayden + a writing prompt.
"Reverence in the face of brutality"
An essay by E. Bok Lee + a writing prompt inspired by it. Thank you to LitHub for publishing the new series LETTERS FROM MINNESOTA.
Four Minneapolis poets: memory-keeping poems can tend to our spirit in a time of rage, grief, and collective mass refusal.
"since the tall grass opened for us" from "Peace Path" by the Inaugural Minneapolis Poet Laureate Heid E. Erdrich + poems by Su Hwang, chaun webster, and Halee Kirkwood + a writing prompt
"Pink Pants is awesome. In my mind, he deals in essential oils..."
An excerpt from work by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson + a creative writing prompt.
"Love Lessons in a Time of Settler Colonialism"
"...And we find each other whole and sacred, alive and breathing and breathing and breathing..." A poem by Tanaya Winder + a writing prompt