Resource Roundup #66
For the week of February 10th.
Well, folks, it’s Friday, it’s 75 degrees outside, I’m sitting at my desk drinking coffee and working with the windows open, and the whole world feels a bit lighter, even in the midst of so much darkness. Take care of yourselves. Enjoy the weekend.
We dropped a new episode of the podcast this week with the wonderful Ida Floreak, an artist based in New Orleans. You can listen to it on Spotify above, here in your browser, or read the full transcript.
We also kicked off the Good Folk Book Club with a beginning discussion of Ava’s Man by Rick Bragg! We’ll be delving into it further in our March meeting, as well as looking ahead to our next book, Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson. You can register for that below:
This poem was shared with me this week, and I have not stopped thinking about it since. “BACKTALKING A GUY WHO TRIES TO GET YOUR NUMBER BY SAYING YOU’RE NOT WHAT I EXPECTED OUT OF A WEST VIRGINIAN, NOT A REDNECK AT ALL” by Keegan Lester & Isabelle Shepard:
It means Skyping with your friend in New York because neither of you live in West Virginia anymore. It means feeling guilty every time it rains for leaving. What’d you expect? Skinning deer and possums— Well, there’s that too. Watch one try to cross the road. Watch its dead body bloat on the side of the road. Watch my hands sketch that in art class in high school. Watch me write poems to West Virginia each time I call my mom on the phone.
I’ve had this on repeat all morning.
Love these photos and essay by Virginia Hanusik in The Bitter Southerner.