7/11: round-up
resources, quotations, prompts, recommendations, etc.
Happy Monday!
Here’s what I have for you today:
Housekeeping
Resources
Quotations
In review
Recommendations
Call to action
Tweets
(It’s a long one, so please open up this email in a new window if you want to make it to the end!)
Housekeeping:
I have three poems out this week:
& also two collages!
Resources:
Ro @munrowhite: Seeking US-based queer women & trans writers (especially BIPOC) who can write personal essays about how your state's current or impending abortion restrictions are impacting your sex life & relationship(s) for @autostraddle. $200 Pitch ro@autostraddle.com. When You Pitch: -Please write a specific pitch. -Tell me a little about yourself. -Include links to previous bylines or attachments of relevant work. -You're always welcome to write under a pseudonym. (July 6)
Quotations:
Part of my process of ~cleaning out my shelves~ includes ensuring that I’ve catalogued all the underlined lines worth remembering.
Anger was the only thing that could keep them all alive.
-Jane Rule, The Young in One Another’s Arms
What could survive the winter was still broken by spring.
-Jane Rule, The Young in One Another’s Arms
Jealousy hung in the house like the smell of cabbage.
-Jane Rule, The Young in One Another’s Arms
[She] took a sip of her brandy, which helped unclench the grief in her throat.
-Jane Rule, The Young in One Another’s Arms
I sometimes think I was born an obstruction and not a very successful one at that.
-Jane Rule, The Young in One Another’s Arms
If you start hating what hurts and breaks us, you’ll end up hating the waters of the earth. You’ll end up hating the sky.
-Jane Rule, The Young in One Another’s Arms
How many times do you have to get broken to learn?
-Jane Rule, The Young in One Another’s Arms
I think most of us have moved away from our families. Not just gay people, I mean everyone. And I’m fascinated with the kinds of support groups we build around ourselves to make a community.
-Jane Rule, in an interview with Larry Goldsmith
I do write about happy lesbians and I also write about unhappy lesbians, I write about very competent gay men and I write about gay men who kill themselves, because I think we have a great range of experiences, as anybody else does, and I think we’re also people under pressure. So a gay character can give a kind of deeper vibration of those social pressures than perhaps some heterosexuals.
-Jane Rule, in an interview with Larry Goldsmith
Anyways,
I’ll send you this great work of queer literature (and four others!) for $30, if you’d like.
Order here:
In review:
Last week, this newsletter talked a little about chapbooks:
This morning,
I got an email from Emily Harstone titled “What is a Chapbook + 9 Chapbook Publishers.” If you *are* considering putting together a chapbook of your own, this article might be a good resource for you. Read it here.
Recommendations:
A few things I’ve been loving lately:
Call to action:
Write a poem (or micro/flash piece, if you’re a prose writer!) based on one of these 30 prompts:
Write a poem that touches on the topic of mental (or physical!) illness.
Listen to a song you love. Write a poem inspired by that song.
Write a poem about something that will always stick with you.
Use another poet’s line as your first line in a poem. (With credit)
Tweets:
Final notes:
If you purchase physical product(s) from my store this week, I’ll send you a free gift.
& stay healthy, sane, & keep looking out for each other—