Zoë Lance.

  • Culture Connoisseur: My World Poetry Day Selection

    Pitchfork has this video series called Over/Under: in an episode, an artist or band gets a random set of subjects and things. They then have to say whether that subject or thing is overrated or underrated, with a little bit of explanation about why they feel that way. If I had my own episode of that…

  • What I Read: January 2017

    2017 is my year of reading books written by women. Here’s what I read in January: Warsan Shire’s Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth.  Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth has been on my to-read list for quite some time, far before Shire’s involvement in Beyonce’s Lemonade. You may have seen the Somali writer and…

  • Link Party: 1/16-1/20

    Participating in the Los Angeles Women’s March on Washington with 750,000 people and millions more around the world was an incredible experience that I will never forget. I am proud that I exercised my civic duty in support of protecting basic human rights for all. Today is the first day of the next four years, and it’s…

  • A Wild World of Words: “Invictus”

    A Wild World of Words: “Invictus”

    Out of the night that covers me,       Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be       For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance       I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance       My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and…

  • A Wild World of Words: The Sheaves

    Where long the shadows of the wind had rolled Green wheat was yielding to the change assigned; And as my some vast magic undivined The world was turning slowly to gold. Like nothing that was ever bought or sold It waited there, the body and the mind; And with a mighty meaning of a kind…

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