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Ursula le Guin died yesterday. She was 88 years old. She was the pillar of anarchist fiction. I'm not someone impressed by celebrity, I don't believe. I'm no
RIP Ursula K. Le Guin!

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Lots of good events coming up!
Lit & Art
Undocumented Writers Feature. Guest Edited by Christopher Soto at the Southern Humanities Review.
DACA Rescinded & Poets Respond at the Poetry Foundation
#HeretoStay: 14 Things to Read as You Stand By Undocumented Immigrants from the Asian American Writers Workshop
Masha Gessen’s “Immigrants Shouldn’t Have to Be ‘Talented’ to Be Welcome” in the NYT
More great graphics, like the one above, from justseeds.org.
Cristina Henríquez‘s “Everything is Far from Here” in the New Yorker.
Resources for students:
#heretostay
Scholarship List for Undocumented Students
IRLC’s What Do I Need to Know about the End of DACA? (Community Advisory) (September 5, 2017)
back to school!
Here’s a few resources for professors; add more in the comments!
Supporting Trans & Nonbinary Students: Here’s a guide designed for Mount Holyoke professors, but hopefully useful for teachers in general.
“Every Book You Teach Is a Political Choice. Make It a Step Towards Social Justice.” from http://educationpost.org
Feminist Resources for #TheResistance from SIGNS. Free downloads until 8/31/2017!
Jennifer Gonzalez’s “How We Pronounce Student Names, and Why it Matters” from Cult of Pedagogy
Accomplice Signs for Office Doors - useful for all! h/t Mimi Thi Nguyen
Accessible Syllabus - from Tulane
Open Dyslexic Font - created by Abelardo Gonzalez, with a Creative Commons license--free to use as long as you give credit!
The HASTAC Pedagogy Project - organized by Fiona Barnett et al, as part of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), an open-access Digital Humanities pedagogy project
Jennifer Gonzalez’s Big List of Class Discussion Strategies from Cult of Pedagogy
ETA: Oh! And here’s one for students (also worth reading for profs):
Sonya Huber’s Shadow Syllabus
If you’re in Western Mass, come out to these readings!
The Juniper Summer Writing Institute Reading Series, June 18–24, 2017
The Juniper Summer Writing Institute hosts readings of prose and poetry at the University of Massachusetts Sunday, June 18 to Saturday, June 24. Readings are open to the public and begin at 7:30 pm in the Integrated Sciences Building—Auditorium 135.
June 18: Emily Pettit and Joy Williams EMILY PETTIT is a poet, artist, editor and teacher, and the author of Goat in the Snow. She has taught and lectured at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, the University of Massachusetts, Elms College, and Smith College. Emily is an editor for Factory Hollow Press and jubilat. JOY WILLIAMS is the author of four collections of stories and four novels, including The Quick and the Dead, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and a book of essays, Ill Nature, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
June 19: Dara Wier and Tiphanie Yanique DARA WIER is the author of twelve books of poems, including You Good Thing, Selected Poems, Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture, and Hat on a Pond. TIPHANIE YANIQUE’s debut novel, Land of Love and Drowning, won the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction and was listed by NPR as one of the Best Books of 2014.
June 20: Arda Collins and Nathan Hill ARDA COLLINS is the author of a collection of poems, It Is Daylight, which was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. NATHAN HILL’S debut novel The Nix was a New York Times bestseller and named as one of the year's best books by Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Powell’s, IndieNext, Entertainment Weekly, and many others.
June 21: Amy Leach, Lydia Millet and Arisa White AMY LEACH is the author of Things That Are, published by Milkweed Editions, and has been honored with the Whiting Writers' Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. LYDIA MILLET is the author of 11 works of literary fiction, most recently Sweet Lamb of Heaven. She has been a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle and Los Angeles Times book awards, as well as the Pulitzer Prize. ARISA WHITE is a Cave Canem fellow and author of Hurrah's Nest, which won the 2012 San Francisco Book Festival Award for poetry. Her newest collection is You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened.
June 22: Timothy Donnelly and Rachel B. Glaser TIMOTHY DONNELLY is the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit and The Cloud Corporation, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize. RACHEL B. GLASER is the author of the story collection Pee On Water, the poetry books MOODS and Hairdo, and the novel Paulina & Fran. She was included this spring in Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists.
June 23: Sam Michel and Camille Rankine SAM MICHEL is the author of the short story collection Under the Light, the novels Big Dogs and Flyboys and Strange Cowboy: Lincoln Dahl Turns Five, and the forthcoming novel The Old Colonialists. CAMILLE RANKINE is the author of the poetry collection Incorrect Merciful Impulses and the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected for the Poetry Society of America's New York Chapbook Fellowship.
June 24: Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Lisicky, and Harryette Mullen STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES is the author of sixteen novels, most recently Mongrels, six story collections, and some comic books in the works. PAUL LISICKY is the author of the memoirs, The Narrow Door and Famous Builder, the novels Lawnboy and The Burning House, and Unbuilt Projects, a collection of short prose. HARRYETTE MULLEN has published seven poetry books, including Recyclopedia, winner of a PEN Beyond Margins Award, and Sleeping with the Dictionary, a finalist for a National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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Happy graduation, class of ‘17! Here’s a little something from the archives for you, a graduation poem from Eileen Myles... (easier to read, less archivally-awesome version here)
Friends, I have poems in the new issue of @psharesjournal all thanks to @missjenniferhaigh for asking, so psyched to be in the good company of Ilya Kaminsky, Taije Silverman, Matthue Roth, and so on. Here's some proof, namely a #trump poem I wrote last June which I fully expected to be as obsolete as a Mondale reference by now. #QueerFuturityistButNotNecessarilyQueerFuturist
Anisha Pai '19 is the first Mount Holyoke winner of the annual Glascock poetry contest since 2009 and one of only 20 since the contest began in 1923.
So proud of Anisha Pai and all of the tremendously talented student poets who read their work last weekend.
Summer Writing Workshops
Some great options, for those already thinking about summer classes. What’s that like, I wonder.
ONLINE SUMMER COURSES THROUGH MOUNT HOLYOKE WITH LEORA FRIDMAN Leora is a fantastic poet and a good friend of mine; I highly recommend these courses (which count for MHC credit, so tell your friends). Blank Slate to Blank Page: A Workshop in Generative Writing Introduction to Creative Writing
FREE (!) ONLINE WRITING WORKSHOPS THIS SUMMER THROUGH IWW Check out these free MOOCs: Power of the Pen: Identities and Social Issues in Fiction and Nonfiction Power of the Pen: Identities and Social Issues in Poetry and Plays
MORE PLACES TO CHECK OUT: Fine Arts Work Center/Provincetown Grub Street/Boston LitReactor/PDX
from cartoonist KC Councilor

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from the DESIGN ACTION COLLECTIVE:
No Ban / No Wall / Sanctuary for All We will resist the Trump administration's attack on Immigrant and Muslim communities! Demand Sanctuary: http://bit.ly/expand-sanctuary Stop the Ban: http://bit.ly/2jn5umg
On Jan. 21, thousands of women will march together in the direction of change, asserting that "Women's Rights and Human Rights." espnW asked women poets to write about the movement.
And Again, Today
Meg Day
My march begins in the morning.
I tighten my fade & my tie & I wait
until I'm fifty feet past the frat
to put in my hearing aids. My neighbor
starts marching before me -- her hands
buried in the bundle of her youngest--
& waves from the window to Paula
who never waves back as she rolls
off the bus on her march toward home
after a graveyard at Lyndon's so crowded
with whistles & unrelenting hands
she feels she's become a one-woman parade.
Every microaggression, another mile; every
holey paycheck, sexist slight, lousy curb cut,
pink tax, or worker's fight. Are you prude,
bitch, dyke, uptight with miles of boys
will be boys to go before you sleep?
Who's got keys between their knuckles
every night? Who puts their march to bed
only to find it turns back on the light?
I, too, was probably meant for gentler
things than hate: I've been searching
for a long time to find another way
of being a girl that isn't manmade.
If you've been waiting for an invitation
it's arrived. O, second chances--
second shifts, a second fist to the face
of the sky & look: we're a movement
in a clock, pushing our own weight
against another's in the hopes of turning
things around. Pound the pavement
if your privilege is a body that can
(but god how knowing the taste
of pavement can keep you from it).
March on bended knee or with bowed
head, march with wallet open or from
your own small bed. Put your hound dog
howl to the phones, put your queer
shoulder to the wheel -- re-sound
your own resistance & make it run
aground on the front lawn of any House
that won't help you get free. March
like your sisters are dying. March like
your planet is through. March like your own
life depends on it & march knowing
that marching can't save you. March
so they know we'll still get up
& march tomorrow morning, too.
Art Tips for Activists!
PROTEST GRAPHIC BANK (via Mimi Thi Nguyen)
MARCH SIGNS BY DOME: http://march.domecollective.com/
SIMPLE GRAPHIC MARCH SIGNS: https://www.dropbox.com/…/moo5gm…/AAAeJIp78aweyDpTurFKec32a…
ANDREA AIDEKMAN'S MARCH SIGNS: http://www.andreaaidekman.com/march-posters/
JUST SEEDS COMPILATION OF FREE GRAPHICS: http://justseeds.org/graphics/
JUST SEEDS ART BUILD TECHNIQUES FOR PROTEST: http://justseeds.org/art-build-techniques-for-protest/
Stephanie Syjuco's MAKING FABRIC PROTEST BANNERS DIY TUTORIAL: https://docs.google.com/…/1o1bCt5pBJS5P9ITUHSTMkPH2Zbr…/edit
SYJUCO'S BANNER IMAGE TEMPLATES: https://drive.google.com/…/fol…/0B6g_dTRVOZg6eHhTU0pvTHBDejQ
SLOGANS & CHANTS FOR A BETTER WORLD: https://docs.google.com/…/1RNwIdyHZWDztID2E8aOZ597RnQO…/edit
WINDOW SHOP SIGN "ALL ARE WELCOME / YOU ARE SAFE HERE": http://media.oregonlive.com/window-sh…/other/welcome%20g.pdf
HAWAII-J20 RESISTANCE GRAPHIC BANK: https://www.hawaii-j20.com/hi-j20-downloads/
RUCKUS DIRECT ACTION VISUALS: http://ruckus.org/downloads/RS_ActionVisuals.pdf
WOMEN'S MARCH DOWNLOADABLE POSTERS: http://theamplifierfoundation.org/experiments/womens-march/
Favianna Rodriguez's WAR ON WOMEN POSTERS: https://motleynews.net/…/war-on-women-posters-go-f-yourself/
PROTEST BANNER LENDING LIBRARY HOW-TO (MAKE A PROTEST BANNER AT HOME): https://www.facebook.com/…/protestbannerlendinglib…/photos/…
This morning we went downtown to the probate court so that I might adopt my own child. He’s three and a half, and all he knew was that he got to “do paperwork” with Baba. He was excited about that …

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I STEP OUTSIDE MYSELF Ingeborg Bachmann Trans. Peter Filkins
I step outside myself, out of my eyes, hands, mouth, outside of myself I step, a bundle of goodness and godliness that must make good this devilry that has happened.
from Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems. (Zephyr Press, 2005).
THE MOON IS TRANS Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
The moon is trans.
From this moment forward, the moon is trans.
You don’t get to write about the moon anymore unless you respect that.
You don’t get to talk to the moon anymore unless you use her correct pronouns.
You don’t get to send men to the moon anymore unless their job is
to bow down before her and apologize for the sins of the earth.
She is waiting for you, pulling at you softly,
telling you to shut the fuck up already please.
Scientists theorize the moon was once a part of the earth
that broke off when another planet struck it.
Eve came from Adam’s rib.
Etc.
Do you believe in the power of not listening
to the inside of your own head?
I believe in the power of you not listening
to the inside of your own head.
This is all upside down.
We should be talking about the ways that blood
is similar to the part of outer space between the earth and the moon
but we’re busy drawing it instead.
The moon is often described as dead, though she is very much alive.
The moon has not known the feeling of not wanting to be dead
for any extended period of time
in all of her existence, but
she is not delicate and she is not weak.
She is constantly moving away from you the only way she can.
She never turns her face from you because of what you might do.
She will outlive everything you know.