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December 18, 2006

On the verge of his first manic episode, Robert Lowell led a pre-McCarthy era crusade against a Yaddo director for, ahem, “colluding with” a Communist.

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I'm offering a new stand-alone class: Family Histo

I'm offering a new stand-alone class: Family History With Imagination.

This class overlaps a little with part of the Writing About Ancestor Trouble course I offered, but is structured to allow more people to join, and will focus on cultivating imagination around tough family histories and how to draw on creativity transparently in nonfiction while also prioritizing fact and establishing how the two intersect. (Fiction and poetry writers, and writers of uncertain genre projects, are also warmly welcome.)

Here's the course description:

It's entirely possible to write factually about complex family history and harms while making space for creativity. Come explore ways of integrating empiricism, feeling, and imagination. Bring a pen, notebook, and index cards. Also, facts, questions, feelings, intuitions, synchronicities, speculations, and a sense of play.

This online course is intended to be generative and supportive, and will be held as a presentation with writing exercises, occasional periods of participation by chat, and an opportunity for questions toward the end.

Suggested reading and the Zoom link will be provided one week before the class start date. A recording will be available for one month after the class date.

A request to participate indicates your agreement to preserve confidentiality around disclosures by participants and that you are entering the class in open-hearted good faith. The scholarship available for a BIPOC student has been claimed, as has the one for an LBGTQI+ student, but please reach out if the cost is prohibitive. Fifteen percent of the proceeds will be split between the Manna-hatta Fund, the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness, and the Black-led Small Business Capital Fund of Mississippi.

Date: June 18, 2023

Time: 1 - 4 PM ET

Cost: $50

Link in bio.

It was an honor to meet the @literaryswagbookclub

It was an honor to meet the @literaryswagbookclub last Wednesday night and to hear everyone's family stories and have ANCESTOR TROUBLE read and discussed with such insight. Thank you, @yahdon and all! 🙏🏻

Regram • @literaryswagbookclub 🚨March Book Club Pick 🚨

Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
Maud Newton

“I chose this book for this month because of my admiration for Maud's ability, a white woman from the South, to excavate her personal family history to the possible risk of how she may perceived by who she's related to.

"While many of us who practice genealogy are drawn to the ancestors we admire, whose intelligence or talents or beauty or station we'd like to share," Maud writes, "many of us are in dialogue with those we ardently want not to resemble, whose traits we see in ourselves and wish we didn't or don't acknowledge in ourselves but should."

The rigor of putting ourselves in dialogue with the elders and ancestors we rather nor associate ourselves is the necessary labor to vindicate ourselves from the reality that to be self-aware is about more than picking and choosing the traits and connections that are convenient but grappling to make sense of the inconvenience of life as well.

Excited to chop it up with you all about this1” - @yahdon

📚 wanna join the community? Link in Bio for more info. 📕- Brandon

Finally got to see these and other amazing @3dmike

Finally got to see these and other amazing @3dmikelee works of the last several years in person. His solo show, A Frame is a Line, opens today @nightshifted_bk.

Happy birthday to the inexpressibly fantastic @ma

Happy birthday to the inexpressibly fantastic @maximus_clarke, who went to the NBCC ceremony with me (congratulations to the winners, including @morganjtalty!) and now is enjoying a Manhattan before dinner. 🍸

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