The Best Stuff I Read This Week

“So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive.”

— Audre Lorde / “A Litany for Survival”

“Poets don’t make money. If you’re not looking for, ‘Oh, I want to write a book, and there’ll be a movie, and I’ll become rich and famous,’ you’ll be happy. There can be a kind of freedom, when the reward is itself the work.”

— Nikki Giovanni / The Creative Independent interview

“But if you can connect the issues and show how climate action can create better jobs and redress gaping inequalities, and lower stress levels, then you start getting people’s attention and you build a broader constituency that is invested in getting climate policies passed.”

— Naomi Klein / “‘It’s inequality that kills’: Naomi Klein on the future of climate justice” / The Guardian

“… Because this disaster is our home. I was born here.”

— Colson Whitehead / Zone One

“My little boat,
Take care.

There is no
Land in sight.”

— Charles Simic / “The Wind Has Died”

“Magic relies on what a viewer is willing to see, and what a viewer is willing to see relies on what the world has afforded them to be witness to.”

— Hanif Abdurraqib / Little Devil in America

“Forgive yourself, then see what grows”

— Sarah Shay Mirk / “You Are Forgiven”

What I’m Listening To:

“Nuclear war (Yeah)
If they push that button (If they push that button)
Your ass gotta go (Your ass gotta go)”

— Sun Ra and His Arkestra / “Nuclear War”