I wrote a thing about how baking is like writing and my favorite read of 2025, Sam Anderson's Boom Town. open.substack.com/pub/sarahorm...
On Braiding
Time, baking, and Boom Town by Sam Anderson
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New poem in the Breakwater Review! www.breakwaterreview.com/copy-of-grie...
Breakwater Review
BREAKWATER REVIEW was founded in 2009 and is run by students of the University of Massachusetts Boston MFA program. Words that unite us against the storm—challenging our own perceptions of reality in ...
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Austin is a tug-of-war over a lake that is really a river. open.substack.com/pub/sarahorm...
Austin is a tug-of-war over a lake that is really a river.
Why I love The Slip by Lucas Schaefer.
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Artist Daryl Howard’s journey—from a Texas childhood with no art on the walls to mastering Japanese woodblock prints—is a story of fate, fire, and following the work. "I have been gifted the ability to do this." Read more:
A Dripping Springs Artist Talks Serendipity, Love of the Craft, and the ‘Fire in Her Belly’
On a recent Friday morning, I drove my daughter and four of her classmates from their school in central Austin to Dripping Springs for a seventh grade field trip. Three rows of girls yell-sang Olivia...
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I'm excited to share a new essay today in the Barbed Wire! thebarbedwire.com/2025/03/18/d...
A Dripping Springs Artist Talks Serendipity, Love of the Craft, and the ‘Fire in Her Belly’
On a recent Friday morning, I drove my daughter and four of her classmates from their school in central Austin to Dripping Springs for a seventh grade field trip. Three rows of girls yell-sang Olivia...
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At today's Tesla Takedown protest in north Austin. Alex Jones showed up for a bit, got drowned out. Hundreds of people came. My pics don't do justice. Huge support from passing cars. #resist #austin @teslatakedown.com
Working on my memoir today, I wrote myself this note: "Where do I put my childhood?"
Rebecca Solnit plays devil's advocate in the best way. "Often, it’s an example of passionate idealism that converts others. The performance of integrity is more influential than that of compromise." H/T @tonyreads.bsky.social
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2y agoPer @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...
An essay about how motherhood changed my understanding of time. "Fifteen years ago, I became a mother and lost track of time. The organizing principle of my life with my infant son was purely physical: milk in, milk out. I was a manager of bodily fluids." www.themanifeststation.net/2024/11/17/s...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Time | The Manifest Station
Fifteen years ago, I became a mother and lost track of time. The organizing principle of my life with my infant son was purely physical: milk in, milk out.
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This was a great episode. I especially liked the bit of wisdom Matthew Zapruder quoted from Robert Hass: "Put the problem in the poem." I just tried it with a poem about seeing Magic Mike Live, and my draft is much better now.
brad listi@bradlisti.bsky.social · 2y ago🎬 clip 2 from from the latest Craftwork episode, ‘How to Write a Poem.’ A conversation with Matthew Zapruder, author of the poetry collection I LOVE HEARING YOUR DREAMS (Scribner). 🎧 listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts. 📺 watch it on youtube.
This week I'm celebrating a new essay out in the world. "How She Suffered" is about how looking back on a series of kidney infections that I experienced in my 20s helped me quit drinking and suffering in silence in my 40s. www.bridge-chicago.org/magazine/how...
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In fifth grade, I was the new kid in school, an outsider, teased by other girls for my unusual height. It didn’t help when our class read the novel that won the Newbery Award that year: Sarah, Plain ...
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