A few exciting updates: My collection of poems entitled "Short-Shorts" was named a semi-finalist in the Gazing Grain Press Feminist Poetry Chapbook contest. I'd been…
That whole "shit X people say" meme trend has come and gone, but I just found some hand-written notes I must have written at some…
come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed Lucille Clifton, 1936-2010 I heard this quote last night during…
A Facebook friend who’d moved to the U.S. from St. Petersburg in his thirties recently posted a frustrated status update in which he complained about…
the unbearable lightness of being the unbearable lite-ness of being the unbearable blightness of being the unbearable nice™ness of being the unbearable “like”ness of beingFrom…
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∞DC is supposedly the country's #1 gay mecca, yet 4 gay bars closed in the city in the last year alone. Wondering what's going on?…
I like this very much, this being a new poem called "Trance Notebook #15" from Wayne Koestenbaum. An excerpt: __________ “Sempre libera” backwards like Paul…
Hey, that's me, apparently! More details on my reading this coming Sunday here. It's an honor to read at SPARKLE, DC's own queer-themed open mic, hosted…
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Poet and novelist Alejandro Zambra on "Silence and Silencing," via BombBlog (via Montana Ray): The language of parents, the silence of our parents: sometimes we didn’t…
"What country are we living in and in what year, when priests bless half-drunk nationalists that pelt people with rocks while the police look on…
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Tanya Paperny 