Good times over here. Wishing you a good read today!

On Saturday at Good Contrivance Farm in Reisterstown, MD, it was delightful to meet Ross Gay, who read from new essays just before a drenching rainstorm.

Best sign at this morning's parade. Happy Interdependence Day!

More Grit & Gravity news, part B! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-...

Spot LIT: Local Women Writers Show Their Grit in a New Anthology Grit & Gravity features 38 stories tied together by a shared sense of resilience. And more lit events for May too.

More Grit & Gravity news! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7641...

Most books pulled from Naval Academy library are back on the shelves in latest DEI turn All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its library because they dealt with anti-racism and gender issues are back on the shelves. That is the result of a review...

When I attended my first Board of Visitors meeting a few weeks ago, I brought some of the books the Academy had banned — including Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" — and moved to end the ban.

This is progress. We can’t stop fighting back.

burlwoodbooks.com/spinning/ Essays on Writing, Resilience, & the Creative Life. Benefitting Beloved Asheville and World Central Kitchen. www.belovedasheville.com and wck.org.

Reading from my short story, "Killing It/Talent Show," published this week in Grit & Gravity, at DC's The Inner Loop. @graceandgravity.bsky.social @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social

Calling all DC book lovers! Come celebrate the release of Grace and Gravity's eleventh edition, Grit and Gravity, on May 7th at 7 p.m. at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Ave. #graceandgravity #dc #booklaunch #literature #shortstories #fiction #politicsandprose

Reserve your spot at The Inner Loop, 5/8/2025 at Shaw's Tavern, for readings from Grit & Gravity: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-inner-.... Pre-order book link: politics-prose.com/book/9781624....

Yoga in the Black Community: Healing Practices and Principles – The UrbanHerbalist Yoga in the Black Community: Healing Practices and Principles is a book designed for Black yoga teachers who are teaching or plan to teach in communities of color and for Black yoga practitioners in general. The book shares the basis of how yoga practices teaches us to learn how to be, know and do through the study of self and nature.

Promoting a wonderful book, Yoga in the Black Community, which happens to be co-authored by my colleague:
www.urbanherbalist.org/yoga-in-the-...

@crystalwilki.bsky.social

Current reading pile. Antidotes to the news. H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald; Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, by Crystal Wilkinson; and the Winter 2025 issue of the Little Patuxent Review.

Cherry tree petals, soft and light.

Another fantastic conference, @barrelhouse.bsky.social! Thank you to everyone for the hard work and care behind today! It was awesome. 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Thank you for the great conference!

Carpe Diem Arts - Daily Antidote of Song Carpe Diem Arts photos. Past DAS Theme Weeks - home page

Daily antidote of song!
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Attribution for the AVAM art: 1) Beaded gorilla by Johanna Burke; 2) Mothers by Pamela Smith; 3) Judy Tallwing's Prayer for Peace.

American Visionary Arts Museum, Baltimore, MD. Food for the soul.

Thank you for all the great tips!