Jill McCabe Johnson

I adore this book and am thrilled to see it getting the recognition it deserves.

The interviews are sooooo good! Every #memoir writer (and reader!) needs to listen to them. 😍

I look forward to listening to your interview. @ronitplank.bsky.social’s Let’s Talk Memoir is one of my favorite podcasts!

And they wonder why so many women choose Bear.

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Yes, that definitely qualifies as a two-income home!

Too much screen (door) time.

a cartoon character from the movie encased looks up at the camera Alt: a cartoon character in a white blouse and blue skirt lifts two upright pianos at once

"Women are encouraged to write beautifully, but not with too much force. They are permitted vulnerability, but not dominance. They are praised for intimacy, but cautioned against authority. Their anger is often pathologized, and their ambition reframed as aggression."

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I love the publisher of my forthcoming memoir, Learning to Spar. Summer Stewart @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social says:

"There is a long-standing template for how women are expected to exist in literature. It is subtle enough to avoid open accusation and pervasive enough to shape entire careers...
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Are there five of them? So cool!

Love is love. Kids get that. No conversation required.

Ha ha! Fair enough. Not a huge fan of the Romantics either. 🤷‍♀️

I know a lot of people who hate Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and don’t realize it was a political poem and part of his advocacy for democracy and better treatment of the poor. I hope you’ll give it another chance.

I watched it twice and cried even more the second time!

Scary.

Rooting you guys on from the PNW!!!

What an ordeal! Hope your recovery goes quickly!

“DEI for me but not for thee,” apparently.

Thanks, Majda! The real beauty is in the poems!

Are you sad you're missing AWP? Join our open mic Thursday @ 8:00 pm Eastern!

Wish you could hit the book fair? The hotel bar? Just pile up your 79 unread books you already own by your computer, grab a drink, and get NAWPy!

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

The cover of Night Bird, a memoir by Shavaun Scott, depicts a woman’s shoulders and head. Her eyes are closed, and thick, wavy red hair falls back from her face. A white owl in flight appears above her head. A forest of birch trees rises behind them.

Looking forward to diving into this #memoir that deals with inter-partner abuse, revenge suicide, and debilitating grief by licensed psychotherapist @shavaunscott.bsky.social.

Hope everything goes perfectly and your recovery is as quick and painless as possible!

That ending lands perfectly!

The cover of Majda Gama's poetry collection reads: In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls poems Majda Gama The title text is interwoven amid an illustration of leaves and flowers.

Huge congrats to @majda.bsky.social whose collection, In the House of Modern Upbringing for Modern Girls is a finalist for the Da Vinci Eye Eric Hoffer Award.

The poems serve as tribute and elegy to a girlhood spread across Islamic & Western worlds and are now more poignant than ever.

Short answer: we do.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Poetry & Jazz | Island Verse Literar Come see local poets share their work alongside live instrumental accompaniment, where rhythm and language move together in real time.

Looking forward to reading #poetry at the Island Verse Literary Collective's Poetry & Jazz show this Friday...

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'“I’m a neurosurgeon,” a man’s voice says when I finally decide to pull over and answer the unknown number that’s been calling, calling, calling while I’m driving and lost in a rainstorm.'

A beautiful flash essay from @gailfolkins.bsky.social and featured in Short Reads literary magazine.

Okay, as I've been thinking about this for a while, and because I've seen a lot of frankly appalling stuff dressed up as 'requirements', here is how I would do it, as someone who has RSD and who knows only too well that some people do not like you turning up in their Inbox assuming fairness.