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Mine for Yours: DC’s Blog is a Lit Community
When an anarchist hosts a blog it becomes a polity. Dennis Cooper’s features literature (and GIF novels).
Free Expression
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Good News for African Writers
Provoked by blind spots in a recent New York Times piece about “the African literary scene,” Zimbabwean writer Audrey Simango reports on the conditions she finds on-the-ground for millennial African writers today. The conditions look good.
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Nowhere to Hide
Vocal improvisers share their perspectives on the unique functions of voice within musical performances, being at once both vulnerable and powerful.
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Fan Fiction is What a Polity of Literature Looks Like
Readers who love what they read sometimes become writers of the same stories. They call it “fan fiction,” even if copyright lawyers call the police. Juli Parrish asks what happens collectively when the line between reading and writing dissolves.
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When Writing is Neither Solitary nor Apolitical
This addendum to the Polity of Literature series describes the physical and digital safety considerations for writers planning to report on the 2021 U.S. Presidential Inauguration.
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“They Came to Us”: The Royal City Second Line Parade Band
This podcast tracks how a second line band saved Christmas in Guelph, Ontario.
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What Work Do You Want the Work To Do?
This podcast shines a light on community art projects that model improvisatory practices’ impact on equity struggles. Featuring George Lipsitz.
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Crash Course in Improvisation
The inaugural episode of this improvisation podcast reflects on the tensions and dynamics of defining the elusive nature of improvisation in daily life.
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“You are on the enemy list of The Black Tarantula.”
In the space of her writing the legendary Kathy Acker found an arsenal of voices that gave her agency and opened readers and writer to a volatile politics. Her biographer, Jason McBride, recalls Acker’s boldest, early efforts.
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Refugee Zines
Lacking other resources, refugees and others on the move often use writing and reading together to site their politics. ArtsEverywhere editor Siddhartha Joag surveys some examples, from Myanmar to Uganda to Norway and Greece.
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Translation
Creative translations of the multi-dimensional ways that we can be and are together, even while faced with great pain, tension, and uncertainty.
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Translating Manus and Nauru: Refugee Writing
In 2013, when Australia began to detain refugees in off-shore prisons on Manus and Nauru islands, concerned Australians tried to help those held captive get their stories out. One, a recent immigrant from Iran called Moones Mansoubi, recalls that time and the talented writers she was able to help.