Rachel Mennies

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Rachel Mennies

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Dear Diary: December 14, 2016

Sources of joy: a Rookie reader meetup and seeing a favorite band.

LUCIA S., FATMA, AND ALYSON.

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Muriel Rukeyser, born on this day in 1913. Read her work at Poets.org.

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We do not want you to ever get married you cannot sleep with a hundred different people each year if you are married after the wedding we drove across the jagged Alleghenies right int…

A new poem live at Nashville Review!

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Digital Illustrator & Artist:

Xuan loc Xuan

“Moon Book”

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Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Submitted by Anya Garrett.

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Check out the new Better Book Titles book.

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Imitation Game

There’s no handbook by which to assemble a self.

By Kiana Flores. Illustration by Maxine Crump.

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It’s late, and you’re still awake. Allow us to help with Sleep Aid, a series devoted to curing insomnia with the dullest, most soporific texts available in the public domain. Tonight’s prescription: a chapter from Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorous, Cements, Pastes and Mucilages, a 1905 book by F. Davidowsky.

Different Varieties of Glue and Their Preparation.

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INSOMNIA LIT wut

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Trigger warnings, the heads-up that college professors give to students to let them know disturbing content is coming, have gotten a lot of attention as the school year has unfolded. When a University of Chicago dean wrote a letter to incoming freshmen this fall rejecting the idea of those warnings, it sparked a nationwide debate on the use of advisories in the classroom.

Our colleagues at NPR Ed recently reported on their survey of more than 800 faculty members at universities around the country, asking about their use of trigger warnings. The team learned a couple of significant things: About half of the professors said they’ve used a trigger warning before introducing difficult material, and most said they did so by choice, not policy or student request.

In this week’s episode of Code Switch’s podcast, Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji talked to NPR Ed’s Anya Kamenetz about trigger warnings. Then we asked college professors on Twitter and beyond to give us a sense of how this is playing out in the classroom.

Content Notice: Here Are A Few Ways Professors Use Trigger Warnings

Illustration: Chelsea Beck/NPR

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“The handshake is our decided ritual of both asserting (I am here) and handing over (here) a self to another. Hence the poem is that—Here. I am here. This conflation of the solidity of presence with the offering of this same presence perhaps has everything to do with being alive.”

—Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf Press, 2004)

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Visit Original Link

I was a guest on Prosody (WESA/NPR) and the link’s now live!

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Dear L— Fell asleep in a park. Started to rain. Woke up with my hat full of leaves. You are all I see when I open or close a book. Yours, M from GLACIERS by Alexis Smith

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Nickelodeon recently announced that a new Hey Arnold! movie would premiere on Thanksgiving of 2017. Upon hearing that this beloved Nickelodeon show would return, I got to thinking about the evolution of Helga’s reading habits. What books would find a home on Helga’s bookshelf?

http://bookriot.com/2016/08/12/10-books-on-helga-patakis-reading-list/

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On Helga Pataki’s reading list (omg):

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up and down

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“I wrote this book because this book didn’t exist for me when I needed it, and now it exists for other women who need to know they’re not alone.”

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Leigh Stein!

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And the loss takes your neck             in its teeth and it splits the skin. And the loss shakes             and shakes you, leaves you                          where it drops you. And today the sky decides             to cover you in snow instead of rain,             the new year begun without your permission.                          Those pens still splayed             in the chipped clay mug. The bourbon closing your eyes. And the loss pulls you close—             for there’s nothing else left for the loss                          to do. It nuzzles you, retracts             its snarl; it sleeps like the dead at the foot of your bed.                          And you lie awake             and stare at the loss, rubbing the soft spot at your throat             that misses the shape of its mouth.

—Rachel Mennies, from “Elegy With Attack Dog,” published in The Adroit Journal

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Revolutionary women in science, illustrated by @rachelignotofsky