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[ansley-clark]

by Ansley Clark I’ve been feeling undone over the past couple of months, ever since I read and started carrying around francine j. harris’ play dead. These feelings are partly because harris’ book,…

This was perhaps my favorite book I read this summer. Everyone should read it.

[johnmost]

(via REVIEW: Touché by Rod Smith)

My review of Rod Smith's latest poetry collection, Touché, is now up at The Volta. Check it out.

[drunkbritta]

Once you get this, list 5 things that make you happy then put this in the ask of 10 people who reblogged from you last :)

I get Age of Ultron before the Americans. Me personally. I will know, before people in the United States. This is what I have dreamt of since I was a little girl and watched Buffy on BBC 2 about 2 years after the US got the episodes.

The song Anaconda by Nicki Minaj. Actually a lot of her lyrics on The Pink Print make me incredibly happy.

When two people try to do something nice for each other at the same time (like hold a door or something), without realising the other would do something considerate.

Reading back through my word doc that I put quotes I love on.

Making myself some amazing food. I love cooking and it’s one of the things I immediately take out of my routine if I’m having a tough time.

[acrosstheskyinstars]

Once you get this, list 5 things that make you happy then put this in the ask of 10 people who reblogged from you last :)

Here I go…… 

1. the way that new books smell 

2. lying in the sunshine

3. FOOD (but mostly cake, waffles, cherry coke and garlic bread— it’s a long list)

4. really, really bad (read: good) jokes 

5. when you have those uncontrollable laughing fits with people

[onetwothreefour-hush]

Once you get this, list 5 things that make you happy then put this in the ask of 10 people who reblogged from you last :)

Happy things:

1. DOGS

2. Good food

3. Sitting by warm fires and being generally cosy in wintertime

4. Hanging out with my favourite people

5. Travelling/the journey to another place

^_^

[kinneys]

May I recommend taking your date to a gay musical called 'Gay'? It's apparently not as long as other musicals

god i love that scene so much 

'not as long as some musicals'

[lovelyarc-blog]

A poetics statement of mine and some of my poems are included in the Volta Book of Poets, edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and recently published by Sidebrow. I'm so proud to have some of my words in this particular collection, and I hope you'll check it out. Pick up a copy at Pub Fair this Sunday or, you know, buy it online, teach it in your classroom, that sort of thing. 

[cudzoo]

Robert Frost? Kara Walker.

Joyelle McSweeney bankrupting the pastoral with just one couplet in The Volta's Mixed Form Issue.