May 2013
16 posts
Real Talk
Ok. So check it out- I am going to be begging for money a lot in the coming months to help send The Writing Wrongs Slam Team to Boston for the National Poetry Slam.
HOWEVER this is a separate sand different kind of plea.
I just found out that I did not get a job I was told I was pretty much a shoe in for. This coincides with my needing to pull together a security deposit to take over my...
Ask A Queer Chick: fuckyeahcracker: Effects Of... →
fuckyeahcracker:
Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”:
Literally nothing other than white people having their feelings hurt on the internet
I’m not joking there is no real world consequence of this
Effects Of Thinking People of Color Are “All Like That”:
Saudi…
In which I glue two 30/30 poems together
The Folly of Youth
You would have loved me then
in those untamed days of purple hair and elephant bells
when I was afraid of my very own breasts
but little else.
Our first date would have had us
lifting a flat blue bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 from the corner store
in the enormous back pocket of your skater jeans
and drinking it under a cloud of graffiti in the abandoned racquetball courts in...
Anonymous asked: If i lived close to columbus i would take you out. Youre a cutie pie
Fuck Yeah Slam Poems!: Slam Poets and Spoken word... →
fuckyeahslampoems:
Hey Fuck Yeah Slam Poem Fans! Looking for more interesting poetry/spoken word/slam/poets to follow? Here is a (large) sampling of some of the folks we follow:
Lauren Zuniga http://laurenzuni.tumblr.com/
Andrea Gibson http://andrewgibby.tumblr.com/
Sierra DeMulder http://sierrademulder.tumblr.com/
Mike McGee http://mikemcgee.tumblr.com
Rachel...
Anonymous asked: Is there any chance of some UK performances?
marcneo asked: It's a shame that I forgot that I was following you until I went through my "follows" list. You have a beautiful way with words.
Anonymous asked: I found a poem that starts: "Before you fuck up and call her anything less than her name, before you grab her by the arm you need to know the trigger that you are pulling at." Is this by you? If so, what is the title and where can I find the entire text? Your writing is painfully, beautifully truthful and I love it. <3
Anonymous asked: you're gorgeous, don't every forget it or waste any time thinking you aren't :)
All of This
Recently sighing hard and re-entering the online dating world has coincided with me being really fucking mean to myself. This article http://www.themilitantbaker.com/2013/03/things-no-one-will-tell-fat-girls-so-i.html?m=1
Is everything I know to be true but needed to hear someone else say in a calm and rational tone. I am grateful for it today.
April 2013
19 posts
Anonymous asked: are you in love with anyone, and if so, who?
“Traditional FA [Fat Acceptance] arguments have relied on the idea that the way...”
– (via docluben)
Anonymous asked: I've always felt so guilty for putting on weight. I always tell people that I didn't always look like this. That I got sick and gained weight. I think I think that they might see the 'old' me if I tell them. I just want to be happy.
Anonymous asked: I'm scared I'll die alone. I'm not the prettiest girl, and not the thinnest. I admire you greatly for the amount of confidence you take in yourself. And you are a beautiful woman. I like being alone but the thought of being that way for the rest of my life terrifies me. I've had guys say they like me, but i never believe them. When people tell me they "love" me such...
10/30 PreFlight Prayer of a Fat Girl
Pray, let us be thankful for the well trained smile of the flight attendant
it may be the only one pointed at us on this day.
Let us not be embarrassed to request the seatbelt extender
but rather rejoice in its being.
Let us pray for a seat that sits not on an aisle
but a widow so we may cling to the plane wall
in attempt to make ourselves small
Let us also move our bodies as little as...
THIS WEEK
I am in New York and New Jersey This Week!
Tuesday, April 23rd Urbana Poetry Slam NYC
https://www.facebook.com/events/458269530923367/?ref=22
Wednesday, April 24th Loser Slam New Jersey
https://www.facebook.com/loserslam?ref=ts&fref=ts
Friday, April 26th Nuyurican Poetry
http://www.nuyorican.org
11/30 Susan
In 5th grade
fueled by a lyric from Salt N Pepa’s hit song “What a Man”
and an early onset mistrust of men
(likely caused in part by being allowed to watch Ricki Lake everyday after school)
I fashioned a mistress for my sweet natured stepfather
and named her Susan.
When he was late coming home from work
Susan
When he forgot something at the store and had to go back out...
9/30 Hoarder
In Texas there is a woman who let despair eat her whole house,
built a mausoleum of dime store romance novels
on her late husband’s side of the bed they shared for 30 years
that had to be dismantled by strangers with snow shovels
after the neighbors complained about the smell of sorrow
wafting from the house in a high wind-
the way it lowered their property values.
“How did she...
8/30 The Folly of Youth
You would have loved me then
in the untamed days
in my purple hair and elephant bells
afraid of my own breasts
and little else.
Our first date
lifting a flat blue bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 from the corner store
in the enormous back pocket of your skater jeans
and drinking it under a cloud of graffiti in the abandoned racquetball courts in Westgate park
and reward each other’s...
please reblog this if it is okay to anonymously...
7/30 Untitled
I am 16 years old at party full of rebel yell and pabst blue ribbon (when it was still Grandfather beer) there is a boy sliding his hand up my thigh with a smile dangling from his bottom lip like a lit cigarette he tells me I am “the prettiest half breed he’s ever seen” and presses into me for a kiss.
The facts are these: I do not yet understand that passing is not always...
6/30 Thanks to Jon Sands for getting me back on...
Bros on Roofs on Couches
(for Jon)
It is finally warm again
and I am walking home under an awning of college boys grand standing on roof tops
chucking beer bottles onto the lawn.
My shoe is rubbing my heel causing me to limp home
a home I will not live in this time next week
a home I never quite belonged in no matter how we arranged the furniture
We haunted the attic of this home together for a...
“It’s easy to be considered a misandrist when men are socialized to feel entitled...”
– (via angrywomanistcritic)
5/30 Sassy
When she enters a room she pauses
as if to wait for the studio audience to stop their raucous applause.
She is sassy
but not empowered sassy
coffee mug wit sassy
she tells you she is sassy with a store bought bedazzled T-shirt
that says Sassy.
She is sassy in the most un-threatening and useless way
She is sassy as a luxury not a defense.
Her sass will never be mistaken for a smart mouth...
4/30 Silent Treatment
from Rachel McKibbens,Prompt # 89
At my worst I am a neglected wound Quiet bear trap teethes at my hips It really is my own undoing for so expertly playing the Titanic but this is what you wanted, right?
Quiet bear trap teethes at my hips the louder I move the more island she threatens to make me but this is what you wanted, right? At my best I am a faulty magic trick
The louder I move the more...
3_30 Waiting for the End of the World
Every spring before I fell in love with you
I inevitably found a dead robin at my feet.
As robins mate for life I took this as an omen of another year alone.
When you left I was certain red breasted birds would drop
from the horizon like blood sticky teeth from God’s own mouth
at my feet.
I read once that losing teeth in dreams is a subconscious fear
of losing ones beauty.
So far I...
2/30 How to Succeed in Business While Having a...
I am still very much fleshing this out. I need to work in something about unequal pay and men that call co-workers things like “Sweetheart” (like the IT guy did to me just today) but this is a working DRAFT. This was inspired by the assignment at the end of Chapter 8 in Mindy Nettifee’s Glitter in the Blood (writer’s GO and buy this book!) and a piece of mail I received at...
We're off to a bumpy start..1/30
Church
Let us pray to the Bingo hall Gods
and open our wallets to hymn 21
while the slot machine choir sing hymns of fallen coins
into collection plate palms
before raising their arms toward heaven again
each temple blessed with a harem of Madonnas
haloed in cigarette smoke
oxygen running thru their holy rosaries.
Blessed be the poker table confessions
their sacrament given hand over...
March 2013
69 posts
Springtime
The last couple months have been very hard and overwhelming and numbing. I have been dying for strong voices to come and relight my pilot light. I have spent more than a few nights hating everything I write and pretty sure I am just straight up withering away on the whole.
Thank goodness for the timing of a couple of shows this past week
Lauren Zuniga was in town on Thursday night for a show in...
Read This and Share This.
Excellent excerpt from a contentious article by Lindy West at Jezebel: “Part Four: A List of “Men’s Rights” Issues That Feminism Is Already Working On Feminists do not want you to lose custody of your children. The assumption that women are naturally better caregivers is part of patriarchy. Feminists do not like commercials in which bumbling dads mess up the laundry and...
Anonymous asked: are you in love with anyone?
Sugar Blooded Elephant
nicalea:
sweetwhatsername:
You can still pre-order Sugar Blooded Elephant here: http://wileypoetry.weebly.com/merch.html
For just $8 (including shipping)
Next week the price goes up to $
Legitimately THREE more orders and I can sent these babies off for print (which would put me delightfully ahead of schedule)-This is the last day to get it for $8 It will then go up to $12. Thanks again...
Sugar Blooded Elephant
I am still a few orders from my goal.
You can still pre-order Sigar Blooded Elephant here: http://wileypoetry.weebly.com/merch.html
For just $8 (including shipping)
Next week the price goes up to $12.
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