Tag: #MeToo

• // tortured genius

  

  People often said that he finished sentences for me. Well, he did. He was between me and the world. He not only answered the telephone; he finished my sentences. He was the baffle between me and the world at large. —Joan Didion, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold   ICYMI, my latest film conversation…

  TKM

  October 15, 2018

  environment, film, lit crit, music, poetry, press

  #MeToo, Berfrois, bro lit, california building, David Foster Wallace, DFW, Gregory Giles, horror film, Infinite Jest, Joan Didion, Mary Karr, Queen Mobs, tortured genius

• // progress vs. despair

  

    As the year draws to a close, I’m struck by the marked—and somewhat encouraging—disconnect between top-down and grassroots forces at play in the U.S. right now. The government has been an utter disappointment in so many ways, from directly undermining economic, racial, and gender equity to making us the only country in the world…

  TKM

  December 11, 2017

  environment, poetry

  #ActOnClimate, #MeToo, activism, climate change, COP23, Drawdown, National Poetry Series, poetry, Seeing White