12/17: round-up

Despy Boutris

Dec 17, 2021

Happy Friday, all!

Here’s what I have for you today:

Gift recommendations
Housekeeping
What I read last week
Quotations
Tweets

Gift recommendations:

‘Tis the season, and—in case you aren’t sure what to gift a writer in your life, I’ve got you.

Housekeeping:

As you may have noted (or not), I didn’t follow my usual publication schedule this week. That’s because I was on vacation! I went down the coast toward Los Angeles with family. I loved the week off from work & finally getting the chance to see both Getty museums.

Here are some highlights, featuring lots of art & a gorgeous building if you scroll through the posts:

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What else?

I have a few publications out this week! Here they are:

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

unbelievably grateful to have two visual poems out in @SoInReview this week! a million thank yous to the editors for including these 🥰❤️

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

unbelievably grateful to have my art on the cover (!!!) of the newest issue of @YIVJournal ❤️

I also have a collage out here in Awakened Voices’ thirteenth issue. You can view it here.

On a sadder note,

we lost bell hooks last week. What a brilliant mind & amazing woman. She’s a model for us all.

A few tweets on bell:

rose ☿ @therosegawden

Does anyone have any bell hooks PDFs? I needs that.

Jenna_DeWitt @Jenna_DeWitt

"queer not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live." — bell hooks

Jess Zimmerman @j_zimms

The central experience of being a feminist writer in the current era is that no matter how brilliant you think it is, bell hooks said it first and better.

What I read last week:

CA CONRAD IN CONVERSATION WITH MEGAN HEISE
LOSER ART AND OTHER QUEERS, Teresa Carmody
HOW TO MAKE A BOOK, JOANNA RUOCCO
Drift, Kate Zambreno
Button Rhetorics, KJ Rawson
A Black Poetics: Against Mastery, Dawn Lundy Martin
Charles Bernstein: Avant-Garde Is a Constant Renewal, Ian Probstein
Violence & Community: Notes & Findings, Bhanu Kapil
The Uncovering, Ira Sukrungruang

Quotations:

What I like the most is creating, because creating poems is where I get to see the world up close every single day of my life. It is the present that counts. Period.

-CAConrad

The language of poetry is a language of inquiry, not the language of a genre. It is that language in which a writer (or a reader) both perceives and is conscious of that perception. Poetry, therefore, takes as its premise that language is a medium for experiencing experience.

-Lyn Hejinian