Although I grew up in South Carolina, I feel like I don't always belong in the South. Queer Ecology, which is a queer study of home, examines that tentative belonging. How might I, as a trans woman, reclaim the images, language, and traditions of this region without being buried by them? What does it mean to love a home that doesn't always love you back?
Evelyn Berry on "queer ecology" |
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"John Burnside, Author of Black Cat Bone, Dies Aged 69"
"The Scottish writer, whose career spanned more than 35 years, was one of only four people to have won both of the UK’s most prestigious poetry prizes for the same book. Though mainly known for his poetry, Burnside wrote in many forms, including fiction and memoir, across a career that spanned more than three decades."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Orchid Tierney on "a field guide to future flora"
"however distributed vegetal cognition is, plants are nonetheless remarkable sensing and sensate beings, who invite speculation as to who we—the weirdos of this world—are if we are not already communal thinkers. so: to look upon a plant with an appreciation that its own mind is radically different is a terse exercise in the acceptance of its unknowability." |
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