on my current obsessions

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

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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

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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.”

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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.

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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

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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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