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[livelyvivian]

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[binsofchaos]

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[finishinglinepress]

FLP POETRY BOOK OF THE DAY: I Can Wonder Anything by Terence Degnan

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Terence Degnan is the author of two previous books of poetry. His work has appeared widely in anthologies and literary journals. His spoken word album, BC, was adapted for the stage in New York City, where he lives with his wife, Melanie, and daughter, Lola, who is the originator of the turn of phrase, I Can Wonder Anything.

Poet Bob Holman says of Terence Degnan’s work, “What a delight to read Terence Degnan! It’s like reading the World. No, it’s like the World is reading to you.” Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, Tina Cane, writes of Degnan’s new book, “Terence Degnan is the real thing–a streetwise philosopher whose poems ring with music, rough wisdom, and wry humor. Degnan strikes such a fine balance between grit and grace, it kind of hurts. It’s the good kind of hurt you should run out and read. Playwright Erin Courtney writes, “Great poetry has a sense of humor, a deep love of the world, and an in-the-moment-go-for-broke understanding of mortality. Terence Degnan’s poetry fulfills all of these delirious requirements. The language crackles, sparks and flies when you read it out loud.” Terence Degnan’s third Book, I Can Wonder Anything, will be published by Finishing Line Press in 2023 & is available for preorder now.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR I Can Wonder Anything by Terence Degnan

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Terence Degnan is the real thing–a streetwise philosopher whose poems ring with music, rough wisdom, and wry humor. They don’t “guardrail” or snowflake with us;” and there’s “no need to doctorate around.” The speaker here–“born with eyes too wide/ sworn to an Irish secrecy”–is both emphatic and questioning, professing to “regret almost everyone,” while asserting “in me is born a great empathy.” Indeed. Degnan strikes such a fine balance between grit and grace, it kind of hurts. It’s the good kind of hurt you should run out and read.

–Tina Cane, “Poet Laureate of Rhode Island”, author of Body of Work and Year of The Murder Hornet

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[redgoldsparks]

This aired back in October 2023, but I only saw it today!

#maia kobabe #NPR #gender queer a memoir #gender identity #banned books

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

"An artist that I spent time with encouraged me to, in front of an artwork, challenge yourself to notice five things. And those five things don't have to be grandiose, like: 'This is a commentary on masculinity in the Internet age.' It could just be, you know, like this yellow makes me want to touch it." [...] "I think being around art ultimately helps us widen and expand our definition of what beauty is. And I think beauty … is that moment when our mind jumps the curb. It can feel uncomfortable, but it also is something that draws us to it. … It's something that all of us need more of in our life. And art can be the gateway to finding more of it. It doesn't have to happen with the traditionally beautiful artwork."

Bianca Bosker, in an interview with Elizabeth Blair. Morning Edition, from NPR. 7 February, 2024.

#Art #art appreciation #new books: nonfiction #author interview #NPR morning edition #love art unreservedly; be suspicious of “the Art World™”

[hotcommiejew]

the more parenting books i read and the more skills i learn relating to early childhood development the more i have realized three, maybe four things: 1, the vast majority of highly educated middle-class typically ‘liberal’ newer parents do not possess adequate critical thinking skills (to an absolutely astounding degree);

2, successful child rearing/raising is mostly common sense and instinct. it’s a lot less ‘raising’ and a lot more ‘keeping them alive and loved while they learn skills and independence alongside you’, far too much modern parenting focuses on tell and not show, which of course rarely works because these little tiny people don’t have the same grasp on language as the person trying to teach them - which we all know at an intellectual level but which seems to be forgotten in instances of reprimand or tutelage.

3, too much modern parenting (I’m talking mainly the last five years or so, but it started over a decade ago) has been obsessed with one goal: keeping them quiet and out of the way. children have turned into screen zombies, absolutely destroying their most formative years and setting them back years in the development of appropriate problem solving skills, self-soothing skills, and emotional regulation skills. this also (not to be that guy…) has lead to a growing trend of increasingly self-absorbed and ignorant children, who’s parents have allowed, and in fact encouraged, them to seek only things that will give them instant gratification in all areas of life.

i have more thoughts but i’m tired.

#im reading michaeleen doucleff’s book on raising helpful children #and my god does she sound mind numbingly annoying (she’s an npr host…) #but the ultimate lessons and points her book teaches are pretty generally good #most of it is common sense but it has stuff in it i haven’t seen published widely before #which is cool

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

My soul will not rest until the day I see THIS come true

#now these little shits better make this happen cuz holy fuck did this manip take me a long time to edit #no one asked for this. I just NEEDED it in my life. #the least the guys can do is call up NPR like “Bizkit is rollin' thru. book it.” #right? RIGHT?!? #jk jk. but no really I need a Limp Bizkit Tiny Desk Concert. The End. #Limp Bizkit #nu metal #Sam Rivers #DJ Lethal #Fred Durst #John Otto #Wes Borland #down the rabbit hole

[warren-therealg-harding]

I hate when news organizations publish stories like this:

Why?

Because of a book I read back in 2005, when it was new, and it was so good I was certain it was going to become the definitive volume on the subject.

Instead it's now out of print.

The book is Struck by Lightning by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, and it explains the way the press and the general public tend to misunderstand how to apply statistics.

What I know about this news story based on having read this book:

You have to look at the average rate of teen crime over a broad period of time to see whether the recent uptick is statistically significant.

It may not be, because every type of event tracked statistically will have clusters of more and of less activity.

The news media reporting on clusters of activity will often drive a perception that a situation is worsening even when it's getting better, as this story even states has occurred in this case.

If you'd like to read this hard-to-find edition, you can click here.

#news #current events #npr #books #recommendations #analysis #struck by lightning #jeffrey s. rosenthal

[progressivegraffiti]

Looking for a good book to read? Or for someone on your holiday present list?

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[wellesleybooks]

The book Untold Power by Rebecca Roberts (daughter of Cokie) was featured on NPR's Morning Edition. The interview was recorded at the Wilson's home with piano accompaniment- take a listen. We have the book on our shelves.

#untold power #rebecca roberts #viking books #american history #women in american history #women making history #npr morning edition #npr books #edith wilson #woodrow wilson #piano

[formerlibrarian]

#npr #banned books #censorship

[musictyme]

Chance the Rapper - Juke Jam Tiny Desk Concert

#Chance the Rapper - Juke Jam Tiny Desk Concert #tiny desk concert #music #rap #hip hop #coloring book #2016 #npr tiny desk #live music

[daddy-socrates]

so glad i have therapy tonight im. Ready to talk about scary things

#gonna talk more seriously about hrt. im so scared but theres been Enough happening that makes me feel. ready ig #it's the yearning it's the longing it's the being envious of my friends when i am actually overjoyed for them #it's the i want to be a visibly trans philosopher it's the fathers day special on npr that made me sob in my car #it's the singing along w my favorite songs makes me cry it's the i dont sing on the rare occasion i go to church it's the. uh. #i don't go cuz i want to i go because i want to see what's being shared in the sermon bc that's what people take messages from #mini book reports and challenging the passages selected bc sometimes they are Vague or whatever #it's the i have a complicated relationship w religion in general lmfao #i am very scared of ruining my relationship w my parents though #im incredibly lucky and incredibly grateful every day that i had a good childhood and good relationship w them #never ever want to take that for granted #but im terrified bc i told them my name and mom carefully didnt show a reaction and dad uh. idk we were at starbucks and i did the order #bc im a starbucks girlie zillennial #and i gave my name and he went 😶🤨 #this is my blog i can say what i want here but im baring my soul in the tags becauee i trust ~3.2k strangers more than my father xo #anyway #blah blah blah in the tags

[finishinglinepress]

FLP POETRY BOOK OF THE DAY: What’s Left by Tate Lewis-Carroll

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What’s Left is a living record of Tate Lewis-Carroll’s dying father and the often estranged but sometimes idyllic relationship they shared. As urgently as the initial cancer diagnosis and death six months afterwards, this project began with startlingly raw poems written beside the father’s deathbed. Yet, upon uncovering the father’s wide-ranging nature photography, Lewis-Carroll is able to reexamine and finally relate to him in a way that had seemed unreachable in life. Obsessed by this act of excavation, Lewis-Carroll unpacks every eclectic box in an attempt to discover what’s missing, what’s sincere, and what’s left after death.

Tate Lewis-Carroll (they/them) is the editor of The 2022 Texas Poetry Calendar, serves as Poetry Editor for the Ocotillo Review, and edits for Kallisto Gaia Press. They’ve lived most of their life somewhere in the Midwest and now reside on a small farm in rural Illinois with their photographer wife, Izzy, and many animals. Find them on Instagram @tatelewiscarroll Twitter @tplpoetry or somewhere out in the woods, reading.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR What’s Left by Tate Lewis-Carroll

Many poems are written about something, but the poems that move me most are those written for something, as with the poems in Tate Lewis-Carroll‘s aptly-titled What’s Left. What is left, the collection eloquently asks, when the beloved – in this case, the poet’s father – has vanished? To read these gorgeous elegies is to be invited into the vulnerable space of a young poet’s grief, and to speak back to the dead in the strange act of ventriloquism that occurs when one reads a poem. As Lewis-Carroll writes so eloquently in the “Acknowledgments” section: “And now, reader, my father belongs to you.” What a generous gift this dedication is, and what a beautiful testament this collection is to the ways in which art – perhaps art alone – offers us the chance to hold onto what matters most.

–Austin Smith

Tate Lewis-Carroll has done a rare thing—writing about death unflinchingly but with love, with a deft touch that traces their father’s body and life in their own but never exploits his pain. I was so moved by the artistry of these poems, their rendering of the specificities of loss, and I am impressed by their courage. These are awakened poems by a “noticing soul” who cannot close their eyes to the truth of life. What’s Left is a beautiful, generous book.

–Rachel Jamison Webster, author of September

In What’s Left Tate Lewis-Carroll attempts to grieve the death of his father, a father who, while sometimes loving, was often distant, already gone. By turns brutal and delicate, shocking and deft, Lewis-Carroll’s poems are operations, autopsies and exorcisms, that attempt to register the transformation of a shadowy, scintillating absent presence into one that, now, suddenly, will also always be so. This is critical and intensive work, and a bold and energetic debut.

–Michael Theune

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[redgoldsparks]

Before the holidays, I recorded a short interview for NPR’s Morning Edition which aired January 4 2023, and I also wrote this accompanying essay. It’s part of a series they are doing to highlight authors facing book banning. You can find some of the previous essays here: Ashley Hope Perez, Jerry Craft, Susan Kuklin

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#maia kobabe #NPR #NPR morning edition #book bans #gender queer a memoir

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

One of my favorite poetry teachers, Jericho Brown, says something about shame that I've never forgotten, which is when we engage with shame, we are believing the lies that people tell us about ourselves. And there is nothing more worth the risk of telling your story than to eradicate that shame, to speak back to it and begin to claim radical love.

Omotara James, in an interview with Leila Fadel, 21 February, 2024. NPR's "Morning Edition."

Full transcript now up at the following link:

#author interview #new book: poetry #queer represetation #fat representation #Pride #anti-shame #radical love #NPR morning edition