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Despy Boutris
Sep 16, 2021
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And, today, I’m sharing my obsessions, including:

  1. Books I demand you purchase immediately

  2. My favorite lil daily-life items

  3. A teeny tiny zine

And, bonus:

  1. Books on my to-read list


Books I demand you purchase immediately

(That is: absolutely essential reading, according to me, Queen of Always Being Right.)

If you lead poetry workshops:

  • Social Poetics by Mark Nowak

  • The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop by Felicia Rose Chavez

If you are a writer of any kind:

  • If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (tr. Anne Carson)

  • Pine by Julia Koets

  • The Business of Being a Writer by Jane Friedman

  • On the Mezzanine by Cassie Donish


A few lil daily-life items I can’t live without:

  • This is the best chapstick ever. Unscented, unflavored, and without any sodium lauryl sulfates, which can irritate the skin long-term and cause acne. There’s also no coconut oil, which is great, because that’s high on the comedogenic scale and thus also causes acne.

  • This company has the most comfortable bras in the world. I wear them exclusively and just ordered more last night. You can get get 15% off with code “DBOUTS.”


A teeny tiny zine

I’ll be sending a free copy to anyone who buys something from my store this week.

Without further ado, the zine, in its entirety:

You’re also welcome to print the zine out yourself for free — just make sure to set your printer properties to “fit to paper” to ensure the spacing’s right.


Bonus: books on my to-read list:

Poetry:

  • The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses

  • Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

Nonfiction:

  • Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson

  • A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

  • Prairie Silence by Melanie Hoffert

Graphic novels:

  • Stone Fruit by Lee Lai


And, finally, in case you missed it: here are some (paying!) journals currently open for submissions.

That’s all for today, folks. Thanks for being here.

-DB
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