Waiting for Godot
The Rebel Cartographers have been talking about the most recent Broadway staging of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot for weeks because one of our writers (Ann Haney) was able to go on her own excellent adventure to see the show and enjoy amazing backstage privileges because of her personal connection to Alex Winter. There are all…
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Humanity and History
As my first year writers draft and wrap up their rhetorical analysis essays (focused on pop culture) I have been discussing, thinking, and writing about the very important ways that books, movies, and television shows can help us be better humans and learn from our (personal and/or collective) history. In fact, some students were so…
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What Stories do you love?
Last week I challenged the Rebel Cartographers with this invitation to write: My first year writers are selecting pop culture texts for their rhetorical analysis essays and I have written about three recent stories on my mind – one of those that ties in with our Redford-focused conversation and writing last week: The Conspirator. There is so much…
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Burning
A recent conversation has me thinking about different aspects of burning. There is the idea of burnout (PTSD) when life is overwhelming; there is the idea of the world burning (which could definitely lead to burnout); and then there is actually burning your dinner, your house, or as a form of disposal (I come from…
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Superman Saved Me
I’ve been in a funk all summer. I recently read all my LexPoMo poems for the last decade and that put me into even more of a funk about this year’s LexPoMo poems. My husband made the case for this being my first non-working summer in more than two decades and I admit that I…
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The Cancer Times
Death and grief are simply parts of being human but they are also aspects of our humanity that we struggle with the most. Modern culture does not allow us to live with our grief because we are expected to fit it into a tiny box of rituals and then pack it away again. Also, modern…
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LexPoMo Highlights
One of the things I love about LexPoMo is the friendships found in the firehose of poetry, but another is connecting with real life friends through our poetry. The loss of one of those real life friends inspired a poem that felt too self-indulgent to post to LexPoMo but I will share it here because…
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LexPoMo 2025
I posted 21 poems for this year’s LexPoMo which is more than I have ever submitted before but it felt like a bit of a cheat because of my Create manifesto. I’m not sure if it was taking a vacation early in the month or my manifesto haikus or what but I did struggle a…
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June 30
I love my husband and my son. I trust and admire many men, but my rage at the patriarchy (which, by the way, also damages those men and the others in innumerable ways) and all the destruction wrought in its name never ends and so I bring you: White Feminism Failed Me Too. Here’s what…
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June 28
I used to consume a lot of news. I had two different podcast lists – one for daily/breaking news and another for deeper dives. Now I listen to audiobooks and music because no one benefits from the torture offered by staying abreast of current events. I have a few trusted podcasts on the deeper dive…
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