Category: On Writing

A note on the utility of gender-free pronouns in literature

Consider the phrase “the Raven of Stars begins xyr [simplify: their] dance” which is what I was writing (for the Discordian Postcard Conspiracy) the first time I decided I required a multiple genderless possessive. In my case, I wanted to specify that despite being a ‘the’ the Raven of Stars was not-singular yet [……]

Ukraine has pronounced 11/22 as Dignity and Freedom day it seems

https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1726858317803204732 a powerful speech for all the world from ukraine’s president. apparently this newly pronounced Dignity and Freedom Day is the anniversary of the 2004 and 2014 revolutions as well as the 60th anniversary of JFKs assassination. I don’t remember very much about the 2004 thing Featured photo source Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash

‘Uncurated’: Letter to editors@[a literary magazine].org (although I may send it to many more as this is still standard)

really think you should reconsider whether something appearing on personal blogs and social media count as ‘previously published’ and so unacceptable, like Rattle.com does. As they say: Rattle does not accept work that has been previously curated, in print or online—poems may be self-published on social media, blogs, or message boards, but cannot have been published in books, magazines, or similar collections open to the public. We want to be the first publisher to highlight the poems, but never want to discourage anyone from sharing their poems themselves. For more on this, read “Uncurated: The Case for a New Term of Art.”