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Drawing from scholar Tina M. Campt’s text, Listening to Images, learn how to register the "felt sound" of a photographic image in Diana Khoi Nguyen’s March craft class! 📸 Saturday, March 19th, 12:00–3:00 PM ET. Open to all writers of color. https://t.co/PjZbPZxNgE https://t.co/eJGoMLSPm9

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“There was no ‘calling’ for talking girls, no legitimized rewarded speech. “To make my voice, I had to speak, to hear myself talk——and talk I did——” —bell hooks, from the title essay 'Talking Back' (in Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black) #BHM2022

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"You do your characters’ justice when capturing their awkward, vulnerable moments of insecurity." —@ppirapokin on @katefolk's new short story collection, Out There, for @CatapultStory https://catapult.co/dont-write-alone/stories/kate-folk-believes-the-weird-and-eerie-transcends-genre-a-conversation-with-ploi-pirapokin

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"You can stay, as long as you don’t cause trouble, as long as your labor is 'skilled,' as long as you don’t stand out." —Franny Choi (@FannyChoir) in her new essay 'Imitation Games,' published by @Gulf_Coast https://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/34.1-winter/spring-2022/imitation-games/ https://t.co/zTVPdBVlpI

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“It took me a long time to learn softness, or tenderness. That’s the main story I wanted to tell.” —Sumita Chakraborty (@notsumatra), interviewed by @HoneyLiterary about writing her debut poetry collection, Arrow https://t.co/uFjRaFhuiU https://t.co/gyFYuU5b7q

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“Lim is, through and through, a poet of the heart…[her] voice...brings into being a collection of powerful, dark, and inscrutable poems that defy gravity...” —@AriaAber in @LaReviewofBooks, on Sandra Lim’s new collection ‘The Curious Thing’ (@wwnorton) https://t.co/TYxXHbnHiM https://t.co/xxVMsIPnkF

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"The Founding Fathers bought bodies but everyday I’m the one asked for receipts. I breastfed the beast, ’til it gnashed and took off running on its feet.” —Teri Ellen Cross Davis (@cross_davis), ‘a more perfect Union’ https://t.co/nwczreUUfP

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.@karenanhweilee’s collaborative prose piece “Souvenirs” with Andrew Colarusso is now available for pre-order from @BaobabPress! https://t.co/Jr8WWywJmH https://t.co/ZSvJ5t2E2S

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“I’m dazzled by her brilliant mind, capacious imagination, and where she takes us, her startling lines carrying the shock of recognition.” —@shhelleywong on @LoneBerryWang’s The Sunflower Cast A Spell to Save Us from the Void from @Poetry_Society 🌼 https://t.co/sJumxnPGn4

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We’re honored to have Lehua M. Taitano, a Pushcart Prize nominated writer & author of the collections Inside Me an Island and A Bell Made of Stones, mentoring poetry Fellows at the Kundiman Retreat! Get to know the faculty and apply by 1/15. https://t.co/gM1c5R8CE2 https://t.co/obL40RYYqI

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