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Ithaca
Launched on a path now in the middle of upstate New York, I understand my beliefs less well than ever. I run up and down the many hills here wondering…
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Youthful
I can remember being “youthful” as long as I can remember. This is not quite true – in my 20s, I was aged, a warhorse, people kept calling me a…
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THIS IS THE ONE ABOUT CLASS
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Sadness Gets Its Foot in the Door
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On Memoir Writing, Privacy, and Truth-telling
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Love Anniversary
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Sexy
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Pinkass Poem
You sit in my kitchen and talk about clearing my shit away,/ my holes and pinkass habits/ as a two-month old, and now./ My body freezes and softens at…
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A Little Break
Dear friends, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all your support of Rough Tongue. I’m taking a hiatus for now to give me some mental room for…
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On Memoir Writing, Privacy, and Truth-telling
Or, How I Became a (Slightly) More Private Person
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Love Anniversary
I never thought I would be lucky in love. When I was nine, it's true, I imagined someone — a man with long hair, sitting under an oak tree —looking…
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My Daddy, Crying
"I cried when I saw you marching in, because I knew you weren't a baby anymore." My father wrote this in my high school yearbook on the day I graduated…
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No, Don't Platform Fascist Poets
Over at Becky Tuch's Lit Mag News, a curious conversation is going on about whether it's permissible for a publisher to refuse to publish an author (or…
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Scary Sister
I've been wanting to tell you about my sister. When I was five, X and I would play with our Barbie and Ken dolls on the big wooden dining room table. We…
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