Three quick things.
1. THANK YOU
Seriously. I did NOT expect the absolutely immense outpouring of congratulations that followed last week’s announcement. THANK YOU ALL.
Before I sink into the all-but-certain mire of whatever is today's news, I want to share something HAPPY: an announcement about my first poetry collection, BIRTHRIGHT, which will be published in the fall. https://t.co/ICR5d6CoUh pic.twitter.com/zYNznBnKmV
— Dr. Erika Dreifus (@erikadreifus) March 27, 2019
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In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
This is where my grandmother hid some dreams.
Source: Tyree Daye, “Ode to Small Towns” (The Arkansas International; thanks to John Sibley Williams for leading me to it.)
Erika Dreifus is a reader, writer, and literary advocate whose next book, Birthright: Poems, will be published by Kelsay Books in fall 2019. She is also the editor and publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter that features opportunities and resources for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.
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