I may post some of the assignments and such here, if I think they’re potentially useful to others. Obviously, nothing confidential to the class and our students’ work! ***** Good morning, students! I haven’t discussed this assignment with Benjamin yet, because he’s still asleep, but I wanted to get it down before I forgot about […]
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the first raspberries are here, sweet and slightly overripe I’ve been traveling; I do that a lot. but now I’m here for at least four weeks in a row and I have *plans* for the garden mostly digging out overgrown weeds. but I will reward myself with taking photos and cutting flowers for the house
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This Tuesday, we’re thrilled to be kicking off our Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy reading series with Benjamin Rosenbaum and Mary Anne Mohanraj! Register and check out the rest of the readings here: https://buff.ly/3CMhby2
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Dinner with the poets and museum curators after the reading yesterday — I had their special, beet risotto with salmon, sun-dried tomatoes, peas, and a little cheese. Yum.
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Two photos from the South Asia Institute exhibit — me with my poem and the art piece I was responding to, and someone else taking a photo of my poem.
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Visiting the exhibit of “Testimonies on Paper” on its last day at the South Asia Institute.
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Yesterday’s event was the closing reading for the _Testimonies on Paper_ exhibit at the South Asia Institute. A really nice event — Dipika Mukherjee did a great job of curating it so we had a lively reading and discussion. The only blip was my own — I hadn’t realized that one of the poems I’d
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Heading in to do poetry reading at South Asia Institute! (Pleased to have a chance to wear these earrings I found while teaching SF in Pakistan; they remind me of the beautiful tilework I saw there, and go so perfectly with this sari…)
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Happy to report that my homemade bubble bath actually makes a reasonable amount of bubbles. It definitely doesn’t foam up quite as much as store-bought, but sufficiently to my needs. It’s also more notably soap-y — I could taste soap on my skin afterwards, so I think a good rinse would be recommended. And the
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I have been so harried the last few months, that this WisCon was somewhat unprecedented for me, in that I only signed up for one thing, a single panel. No art show, no spice-grinding at the Gathering, and usually I have at least three panels / day, instead of just one at the con. It
