postcard of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s typewriter birthday card from my father “Don’t forget to show the grace and humanity.” — advice Dorothy Allison gave Justin Torres at the Lambda Emerging Writers Retreat a gold mask from my brother’s wedding a sticker of a dinosaur that says “Fuck!” “…and with a tiny prayer I sayContinue reading “a catalog of the things above my desk”
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you’re wondering if I’m lonely: thoughts on what it means to lose Adrienne Rich
When I was twenty four, I had a crush on an older woman who was a writer, and late in August in the summer of our courtship, she wrote an email to me which simply said, “I just found out that Grace Paley died and all I want to do today is cry for her.”Continue reading “you’re wondering if I’m lonely: thoughts on what it means to lose Adrienne Rich”
Courtney Gillette 