PILGRIMAGES: Ryan Britt, “Holding Onto Part of the Journey” (6/6)
6There’s an essay in my book which begins with a scene on a rooftop of Bushwick, Brooklyn in which a younger version of myself worries about what will happen…
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PILGRIMAGES: Ryan Britt, “No Place of One’s Own” (4/6)
Staring out into space wondering what you’re supposed to be writing next is a familiar scene either to real writers or fake writers in movies. In the latter, the space…
PILGRIMAGES: Ryan Britt, “There And There Again” (3/6)
The most famous fantasy novel–The Hobbit–also contains inside of it a pseudo-memoir. Bilbo Baggins claims to be writing his life story; a chronicle of…
PILGRIMAGES: Ryan Britt, “Searching For (And Loving) How You’re Labeled” (2/6)
Everyone loves to label artists. Think about it: the record store of those stone-age times before iPods divided music into categories for easy shopibility. Rock. Hip-Hop. Polka.
PILGRIMAGES: Ryan Britt, “Making It On Accident ” (1/6)
Ryan Britt is the Halley’s comet of pop culture critics: […]
PILGRIMAGES: Ashe Vernon, “Ashe’s Purple Shoes” (6/6)
Slam poet Ashe Vernon shares a performance of her poem, “Ashe’s Purple Shoes.” Performance originally published by Sole Sisters Film Shorts, a media project whose…
PILGRIMAGES: Ashe Vernon, “Post Panic Attack” (5/6)
Slam poet Ashe Vernon shares a performance of her poem, “Post Panic Attack.” Performance originally published by Write About Now, a weekly…
PILGRIMAGES, Ashe Vernon, “To the Boys Afraid of Dying” (4/6)
I. They said you had no right / to the softer parts inside your chest. / They said / you were better off without them. / They said / it made you weak. / I’m sorry. / I’m so sorry.
PILGRIMAGES, Ashe Vernon, “To the Girls Afraid of Dying” (3/6)
i. I know that look. / I know what it means to be that kind of starving— / to fling open your arms and dare the sky / to meet you. / I know the fear of the sky…
PILGRIMAGES, Ashe Vernon, “Self Portrait Dressed as a Self-Help Program” (2/6)
Two years ago, you were all white knuckle and grit. / You abandoned your softness in a cardboard box / on the side of the road…
PILGRIMAGES: Ashe Vernon, “Rewind” (1/6)
Ashe Vernon‘s poetry first came to my attention a couple […]
PILGRIMAGES: Mike Albo, “How I Work” (6/6)
“I’m not doing enough.” That sentence lurks in my mind often. That little shadow-being mumbling out that phrase every time I feel like I haven’t spent enough time writing or working or whatever it is that makes you…
PILGRIMAGES: Mike Albo, “The Ups and Downs of Self-Promotion” (5/6)
Whenever I have a friend or acquaintance who is about to release a new book, I tell them to let themselves fantasize that this book is going to be a sensation.
PILGRIMAGES: Mike Albo, “The Fluidity of Expression” (4/6)
I mentioned before that I believe ideas are energy. I’d like to expand on that and say that I also think they are gender fluid. I know that sounds weird but what I mean is…
PILGRIMAGES: Mike Albo, “Idea Paranoia” (3/6)
Yesterday, I mentioned one huge roadblock to creativity: doubt in yourself and whether your voice is worthy. Another obstacle is related but a little harder to nail down, because it appears to be real and…
PILGRIMAGES: Mike Albo, “Writing Through the Roadblocks” (2/6)
Recently I was taking a trip with two fellow journalists. We chatted about what we have been working on. I mentioned I have written two novels and I can’t believe they ever…