This Week’s Writing 4/20/24

Medical debt, white rural voters, Terry Allen, and I have a new book coming out!

Goose looks curious as I explain…what I published this week.

If you read one thing by me this week read:

Illinois is trying a range of innovative approaches to cut medical debt. (Prism Reports)

Politics

The two party system isn’t our problem. Racism is. (Public Notice)

White rural voters vote for Republicans because they are white. (EIH)

Kagan and Sotomayor should retire. (EIH)

Student protestors aren’t elites. (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

A new biography of Terry Allen, art vortex. (Observer.com)

A series on Best Picture Oscar nominees by women directors, starting with Children of a Lesser God.  (Splice Today)

The First Omen rejects the original’s patriarchy. (Chicago Reader)

In praise of alt country stalwart Nora O’Connor. (Chicago Reader)

Ex Machina as robot noir. (EIH)

Poetry

My book, Not Akhmatova, is available for pre-order! (Ben Yehuda Press)

Exclusive for EIH.

the trash is already full
but it is okay
because I deserve to suffer

Couple more short poems. (Five Fleas)

with your head
on my chest
I can hear
through your skull

the sound
of you chewing
the chips
I bought you

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exploring your nether spork
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