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About the Art: Climate

This piece is part of the Climate notebook, which features art by Katrina Bello. A large drawing of willow bark that resembles cliffs and canyons. A drawing of bare treetops in the shape of a decaying...

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“Good Nonfiction Writing Is Also the Evocation of Subtext”

“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...

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“It All Leads Back to Language”

In September, AAWW hosted a conversation between Deaf interpreters Romduol Ngov and Xgamil Campos-Espinosa, moderated by AAWW events and workshops coordinator t. tran le. Ngov and Campos-Espinosa...

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Listen to My Hands

This past year, we collaborated with our wonderful partners at Pro Bono ASL to bring to our stage Deaf poets Crystal Martinez, Dominique Middlebrook, and April Scott, and Deaf interpreters Xgamil...

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“We Can Talk About This”

In August 2022, AAWW hosted a conversation about poetry including Deaf poet and Latina Sickle Cell Warrior Crystal Martinez. The video below includes excerpts from that conversation and covers topics...

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“Be Considerate When Telling Asian American Stories”

From a story about one of the last major newsstands in the West Village to pieces on the in-between spaces Asian Americans occupy across New York City, the 2022 Open City Fellowship cohort took on a...

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Inspiration Is Everywhere

“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...

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“I Only Have Language and Silence”

In her second poetry collection, The Rupture Tense (Graywolf Press, September 2022), Jenny Xie poses the age-old question—“What is a poem?”—and offers an expansive answer: “Anything that continues.”...

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I Write Best While Having and After a Good Cry

“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...

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Every piece of writing should express or represent

“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...

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When You’re Interviewing, You’re the One in Charge

“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...

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Just Listen, Really Listen

“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...

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“No Other Way to Be a Writer Except to Be Alone in a Room”

“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...

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“That Which You Are Afraid to Write, Write It”

“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...

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“Cut Down the Quotes . . . Include Only Gemlike Phrases”

“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...

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“I Am Still Developing as a Writer”

“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...

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The Filipino Are Plural

As a Filipino myself, I was quite elated about the publication of Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines in March 2021 and grateful to its publisher, Jee Leong Koh of...

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“Write a Sentence—Any Sentence—No Matter How Bad It Is”

“Writing is easy,” Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Red Smith once said. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open your veins, and bleed.” Putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) is...

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Superstition and Faith in a Queer World: A Conversation with SJ Sindu

SJ Sindu’s second novel, Blue-Skinned Gods (2021), follows a blue-skinned, black-blooded child-god narrator, Kalki, who is named after the tenth avatar of the Hindu god, Vishnu. Kalki’s father, Ayya,...

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“This Is Our Project”

The first time I heard Ibi Ibrahim’s voice, it was through a song. A friend had sent me a track by Kabreet, the electro pop duo that the Yemeni American artist forms one half of, and I had spent the...

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