My day has been unexpectedly rocky. Have a string of links.
1. Three poems that got my attention: Amit Majmudar's "Newsquiz," Jack Mapanje's "Skipping Without Ropes," and Sandra McPherson's "Spill."
2. An article I found useful in discussing police abolition without assuming that at step two a miracle will occur: "Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop." "The question is this: did I need a gun and sweeping police powers to help the average person on the average night? The answer is no."
3. I was not sure I had heard of Lotte Laserstein, except then I recognized her self-portrait with cat. I like her style.
4. I had definitely not heard of Louise Page, but I am fascinated that she wrote a stage adaptation of Margery Allingham's The Fashion in Shrouds (1938), since that's the one Campion novel I actively dislike, intellectually mitigated only by my knowledge of the circumstances of its writing. I hope Page's version is produced; I would love to know what she saw in it.
5. According to the Globe, our fireworks problem last night [edit: tonight] is a popular one, right down to the boom-spooked cats: "With so many illegal fireworks going off in Boston, who you gonna call?" I hadn't realized fireworks were wholly illegal in Massachusetts. I still miss sparklers.
1. Three poems that got my attention: Amit Majmudar's "Newsquiz," Jack Mapanje's "Skipping Without Ropes," and Sandra McPherson's "Spill."
2. An article I found useful in discussing police abolition without assuming that at step two a miracle will occur: "Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop." "The question is this: did I need a gun and sweeping police powers to help the average person on the average night? The answer is no."
3. I was not sure I had heard of Lotte Laserstein, except then I recognized her self-portrait with cat. I like her style.
4. I had definitely not heard of Louise Page, but I am fascinated that she wrote a stage adaptation of Margery Allingham's The Fashion in Shrouds (1938), since that's the one Campion novel I actively dislike, intellectually mitigated only by my knowledge of the circumstances of its writing. I hope Page's version is produced; I would love to know what she saw in it.
5. According to the Globe, our fireworks problem last night [edit: tonight] is a popular one, right down to the boom-spooked cats: "With so many illegal fireworks going off in Boston, who you gonna call?" I hadn't realized fireworks were wholly illegal in Massachusetts. I still miss sparklers.
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