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#writerscoffeeclub 28 Have you ever done a writing mentorship? What was your takeaway?
No, I haven't.

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I‘m afraid I won’t be able to make it to this year’s #CSSDay. 😔 And, looking at the stellar lineup and all the lovely people who will be there, FOMO is already huge! 🥲
Watching the talks remotely might help a bit, but just can’t replace the onsite experience …
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CSS Day 2025, 5th & 6th of June, Amsterdam
CSS Day is the conference for CSS designers, developers, spec writers, and browser vendors.

Lew Welch had been a fixture among the best minds of the Beat generation—a friend of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder,
a kindred California spirit whose writing never achieved the same profile.
In 1971, Welch, who had been building a cabin on the San Juan Ridge, on land Ginsberg had left him,
walked away from the property with a .22-caliber revolver
and was never seen again.
“I had great visions but never could bring them together with reality,”…

Alta Folio: ‘I Went Southwest’
Writer Brad Rassler digs into the disappearance and afterlife of Beat poet Lew Welch.

#writerscoffeeclub 28 Have you ever done a writing mentorship? What was your takeaway?
No, I haven't.

Calamus 15 O drops of me!
It's a remarkably morbid poem for Whitman, literally about blood dropping from wounds, corrupting his poetry.
stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops
But he turns this blood into a sort of virtue that infuses his poem, starting with an inversion. It's not "saturate yourself with the drops". Instead it's saturate them with yourself.
Saturate them with yourself, all ashamed and wet,
Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.
I can make a case for a queer reading of recognizing gay shame and overcoming it. To take the stigma of homosexuality and turn it into a virtue, "let it all be seen in your light".
But I think I may be out on a limb with that interpretation. Whitman's not typically a writer about shame. And I think "gay shame" doesn't apply well as a concept in the 1850s, that's a malady that comes with a backlash against modern gay identity.

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/29: Tell us about an epiphany that changed your writing.
There's power in words. Incredible power. It's the closest thing to magic we come, I'd say. The words you select will bring images to life in another person's mind. You can bring smells into their life, touch, feelings. You can enrich or you can scare. Make people laugh, cry, learn.
D…

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/27. What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I have a limited amount of energy and my family comes first, and then obligations that I have to take care of. Work is necessary, not optional.
The time I have left is my spare time. We all have that, an hour or two when we're free.
During that time,…

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/27. What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I have a limited amount of energy and my family comes first, and then obligations that I have to take care of. Work is necessary, not optional.
The time I have left is my spare time. We all have that, an hour or two when we're free.
During that time,…