Why Writing Matters in the Age of Despair
No word is wasted. No story is told in vain.
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Posts Tagged: Doreen St. Felix
Notable NYC: 4/21–4/27
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 3/3–3/9
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 12/16–12/22
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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What the Cameras Show Us: Ourselves
When I decided I needed to write this piece, I spent a lot of time wondering whether I could. Whether I should.
...morePhillis Wheatley, Poet
For Lenny Letter, Doreen St. Félix writes on the legacy of Phillis Wheatley, the first black poet to have her work published in America: In her second life, Wheatley’s poetry—and the imagined determination it took to create it, to appropriate the language of white imperialism for her personal truth—has become a founding myth, of a […]
...moreOdes to Lolita, the Sexuagenarian
It was like being marched through someone’s private idea of a perfect night, a night where I was the center but one that had curiously little to do with me at all—all of which is to say that in an equation of desire, the object of desire can be integral and incidental at the same […]
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