Archive - Rough Tongue

Let Me Introduce You to "Donnaville"

My first novel is coming out this fall

May 13 •

Donna Minkowitz

December 2023

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…

Dec 12, 2023 •

Donna Minkowitz

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…

Dec 11, 2023 •

Donna Minkowitz

November 2023

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…

Nov 6, 2023 •

Donna Minkowitz

October 2023

Oct 31, 2023 •

Donna Minkowitz

September 2023

On Memoir Writing, Privacy, and Truth-telling

Or, How I Became a (Slightly) More Private Person

Sep 23, 2023 •

Donna Minkowitz

August 2023

Scenes from a Gender-Varied Life

Aug 16, 2023 •

Donna Minkowitz

July 2023

Love Anniversary

I never thought I would be lucky in love.

Jul 17, 2023 •

Donna Minkowitz

June 2023

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…

Jun 28, 2023 •

Donna Minkowitz

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…

Jun 15, 2023 •

Donna Minkowitz

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…

Jun 12, 2023 •

Donna Minkowitz

Content warning: violence.

Jun 2, 2023 •

Donna Minkowitz

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