Pope was dope

The first U.S. TV show produced by a Palestinian-American (Mo) about Palestinian American life, Mo balances humor and poignancy as it explores the precarity of statelessness and exile, of frozen grief and longing life. The final episode brought me to tears. Please go watch this show!

Looking back to look ahead—last semester’s advanced creative writing class produced chapbooks and we had a signing ceremony at the end of class. They learned about themselves, their artistic passions, and the process of thinking through and creating a collection of work. Highly recommended.

Getting older happens fast

For those in the Cleveland area, tonight at John Carroll University!

10 years ago today. Dinner after screenwriter and former housemate Brian Gunn talked about writing, to a capacity crowd at John Carroll University. One tidbit: he quoted Chuck Jones, that each of us has 10,000 bad drawings in us that we must first get past, before we draw anything worthwhile.

I had the good fortune of writing about a personal memoir of the late genius poet, Lev Rubinstein, for @poetryfoundation. He is missed but not forgotten.

Everything about his writing is suffused with curiosity.

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/161...

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