Resource Roundup #14

For the week of July 23rd.

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Well, we made it to Friday. Anyone else feel absolutely exhausted from this week? From the world opening back up? The full moon? Who knows. I’m hoping to get off my computer this weekend, but I’ll definitely be delving into some of the resources below…

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Leon Bridges in Fort Worth, via Texas Monthly.

Leon Bridges is the coolest. This is a great profile about returning to your roots and artistic creation via Texas Monthly.

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Words of wisdom from Marie Howe:

Zeeshan Pathan @ZeeshanJaanam

Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it. —Marie Howe

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Calling all writers: The Rumpus is open for submissions until August 1st.

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A few years ago, I read Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine and it blew my mind. Excited about new fiction from her, here.

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I would pay money to watch my parents participate in this:

Arielle Nissenblatt (sounds like 'this and that') @arithisandthat

A podcast where parents try to explain what their adult children do for a living

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Why imagining the apocalypse doesn’t actually prepare you for the real one, via LitHub.

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This is an absolutely astounding poem and meditation titled “Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves” by J. Drew Lanham in Emergence Magazine.

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Incredible artwork by artist Nik Richard:

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