Lisa Piazza

To me this is a pretty obvious result of a culture that prioritizes "producing" above all else. I'd throw the framing of education in general as essentially job-preparation as a big part of that culture. AI let's people produce & since they don't know the value of creating, they use AI to produce

“Form is never more than a *revelation* of content.” — Denise Levertov

"Reader who or the unsettling charms of Shirley Jackson’s or Daphne du Maurier’s stylish, gothic-imbued brand of horror and anyone who loved the cliquish, killer cast of characters in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History will be enthralled with Dunham’s exemplary debut." —Library Journal, starred review

My novel is comped to Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Donna Tartt in this ⭐ STARRED REVIEW ⭐ at Library Journal!!! 🤩

One thing that doing creative work teaches you is that ideas are worth nothing. Anybody can have an idea. In a writers room you have to come up with a hundred ideas a day, and most of those don’t make the page. It’s the work of making something that gives it value. The patina of humanity.

Will be getting Suzy Eynon’s BEING SEEN up for pre-order order tonight! @suzyeynon.bsky.social

Sorry that I missed this little cnf also dropping yesterday... I wrote this piece while I was still teaching middle school, and re-reading makes me remember what I loved about it.

"Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort and enlighten someone else. What then is my responsibility? What am I to restrain? What am I to fear and alter— my own nakedness or the grief of the reader? I want my stories to be so good they are unforgettable; to make my ideas live and my own terrors real for people I will never meet. It is a completely amoral writer's lust. If we begin to agree that some ideas are too dangerous, too bad to invite inside our heads, then we stop the storyteller completely. We silence everyone who would tell us something that might be painful in our vulnerable moments."

Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort and enlighten someone else. What then is my responsibility?What am I to restrain? What am I to fear and alter . . .

- Dorothy Allison

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For a limited time you can snag Jill Osier's "from" for only $10! All BCP chapbooks are on sale as we head into August and @thesealeychallenge 😇 ✨ All chaps $10 each! Buy more books and save! 15/$100 or 31/$175.

One of my favorites!

An erasure poem by Mary Ruefle titled Stopping created by whiting out much of Robert Frost’s poem: Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.

Mary Ruefle’s erasure poem of Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Rvening by Robert Frost
#poetry #smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Thanks to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social
for introducing it to me.

[I type “I’m sorry” on a typewriter]
“Holy shit my typewriter apologized!”

Is the WPLS on your calendar?

I'm excited to teach this class. Come join the fun!

I wish I could say I was surprised

Reminder that our yearly Chapbook Contest Deadline is TOMORROW. Details: thediagram.com/contest.html

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

It feels really good to order terrific books from an indie press while Prime Week is busy tanking. Just saying.

Here are a few I love (I’ve published with Ethel and edit/read for Reckoning):

www.sarabandebooks.org

riverriverbooks.org

www.ethelzine.com/chapbooks-mi...

reckoning.press/shop/

visual erasure poem with male figure in cap assembling strips of different colors into wallpaper

hopes of changing for the better
make glue of them,
then they will
stick

The Letter A I have always thought I lived on the edge, always believed it. And that something would tip the balance, something small, like a fact— one cool fact and I’m over. Then the arbitrary things come clean; types of buildings in their privacy articulate their rightness, and the two-finger gesture of Christ, the necktie, the octave, the claw-and-ball chair leg, the ace of spades. Just as the letter A swivels from the oxhead, all our forms made naked as knife, fork, spoon. This enlightenment spreads daily. I strive for long life. Home becomes endless. That town? I was born there.

Sally Fisher

Rolling Stone may publish an article about a group of posers who think they’re an anti-woke literary movement but they’ll never write a profile of a tiny press run by an English teacher. All we have is word of mouth. If you like our books please tell your friends.

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I'd love to consider your manuscript, to help shepherd you to your writing dreams/goals!

Loving my students in the age of generative AI — Suyi Davies Okungbowa Essays on generative AI that consider the inadequacy of generative AI technologies to embody or replicate the facets of human endeavour that make writing, language, communication and art as imperfect,...

On the back of a recent wave of AI shilling for use in "education", here's my second, tangential essay in the "I call bullshit" series: On not screwing over learners in my writing classroom by pretending generative AI will do them more good than harm.
suyidavies.com/essays/i-cal...

Something I wish ppl would internalize about AI is that they don’t want to do this out of kindness. They want AI to replace you. Period. Rich ppl want to replace you with tech so they don’t have to pay you. And they only give you access so they can use your brain to train your replacement.

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

Autumn submissions are open until June 30th. Make sure to send in your work for the chance to be featured in Chestnut Review’s Autumn Issue.

#chestnutreview #chestnut #prose #poetry #writing #litmag #autumn #poetry #prose #art

Here's what I want to see in my query inbox! I want stories with unique characters taking on unique and specific stakes, conflicts that they have created from their past, problems they can't escape, with no easy solutions, and no choice but to involve the ones they love.

gonna do a 30 poems in 30 days writing group this july if anyone wants to join! it's a very informal, generative experience--write a shitty first draft poem each day and share it with the group unedited, and then do it again the next day and the next and.

An advert for a company called Magibook. The headline reads "Turn HARD books into EASY books with Magibook! Maximize your reading potential and avoid difficult language today." Underneath is two covers of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Above the first cover is the original version of the opening sentence (captioned "Turn Hard Books"), which reads "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since." Above the second cover (captioned "into Easy Books") is a simplified version, which reads "When I was young, my dad told me something that I still think about."

THE BELL JAR

HARD ❌

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York

EASY ✅

That summer was sizzling, and so were the Rosenbergs