Books Read in 2013

JANUARY:

1. Race Matters by Cornel West
2. To Be Broken and Tender: A Quaker Theology for Today by Marge Piercy Abbott
3. The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
4. The Prisoner's Wife by asha bandele
5. Wings for Wheels: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen edited by Nomi Kane
6. Ways of Seeing by John Berger
7. Part Asian 100% Hapa: Portraits by Kip Fulton
8. The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
FEBRUARY:
9. Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss
10. Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You edited by Ryan Conrad
11. If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance edited by Angela Davis and political prisoners
12. Widow by Michelle Latiolais
MARCH
13. Important Comics are Bad by Dina Kelberman
14. Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez
15. Assata by Assata Shakur
16. The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos, and Nate Powell
17. The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
18. Sweet Tooth Volume 3: Animal Armies by Jeff Lemire
19. Sweet Tooth Volume 4: Endangered Species by Jeff Lemire
APRIL
20. From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond edited by Morty Diamond
21. Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch
22. Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity collected by Catherine Whitmire
23. Green is the New Red by Will Potter
24. The End of San Francisco by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
25. Something Like Beautiful by asha bandele
26. Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock
27. Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg
MAY
28. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
29. Critical Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex: A Special Issue of the Journal Social Justice edited by the Critical Resistance Publications Collective
30. Stories of Transformative Justice by Ruth Morris
31. Sweet Tooth Volume 5: Unnatural Habitats by Jeff Lemire
32. Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities edited by Victoria Law and China Martens
33. The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
34. All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal
JUNE
35. Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics edited by Gabriel Kuhn
36. Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road
37. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
38. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney
39. Tumble Home by Amy Hempel
40. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
41. Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole Georges
42. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
JULY
43. Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
44. Oppose and Propose! by Andrew Cornell
45. Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love, and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary edited by Morty Diamond
46. Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade edited by Daniel Burton-Rose
AUGUST
47. The Riot Grrrl Collection edited by Lisa Darms
48. Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi
49. Radiator Days by Lucy Knisley
50. The Adventuress by Audrey Niffenegger
51. Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 by MariNaomi
52. The End by Anders Nilsen
53. Rookie Yearbook One edited by Tavi Gevinson
54. Don't Go Where I Can't Follow by Anders Nilsen
SEPTEMBER
55. The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Liebegott
56. Greenzine 14 by Cristy C. Road
57. Love Cake: Poems by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
58. The Feminist Critique of Language edited by Deborah Cameron
59. Soledad Brother by George Jackson
OCTOBER
60. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith
61. Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
62. The Black Notebooks by Toi Derricotte
63. Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar
64. The Floundering Time by Katy Weselcouch
NOVEMBER
65. Not Your Mother's Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book edited by Saiya Miller and Liza Bley
66. Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond by David Gilbert
67. My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt
68. Walking with Ghosts by Qwo-Li Driskill
69. The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
70. First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon
71. Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) by Thea Hillman
72. Begging For It by Alex Dimitrov
73. 7 Miles a Second by David Wojnarowicz, Marguerite van Cook, and James Romberger
74. How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir by Amber Dawn
DECEMBER
75. Doris by Cindy Crabb
76. Letters to Wendy's by Joe Wenderoth
77. Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
78. The Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb
79. When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova
80. Fires by Raymond Carver

Books Read in 2012

1. Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society by Inga Muscio

2. Sweet Tooth, Volume 2: In Captivity by Jeff Lemire
3. Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
4. Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, edited by Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman
5. Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
6. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare
7. Invincible Summer by Nicole S. Georges
8. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg
9. Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars, edited by Ryan Conrad
10. Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society, edited by A. Breeze Harper
11. Invincible Summer: An Anthology, Volume II by Nicole S. Georges
12. Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon
13. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
14. Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, edited by Michelle Tea
15. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and The Limits of Law by Dean Spade
16. Letters from Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out, edited by Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow
17. Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life by bell hooks and Cornel West
18. Milk Teeth by Julie Morstad
19. Drop-In by Dave Lapp
20. A Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate Bornstein
21. Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons, edited by Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman
22. Rose: Love in Violent Times by Inga Muscio
23. Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality by J. Brent Bill
24. Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by bell hooks
25. Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood, edited by Tomas Moniz and Jeremy Adam Smith
26. Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice by Michael Hames-Garcia
27. Antigonick by Sophokles, translated by Anne Carson

back

no one fall in love with me ever, go!

take me over

Goal for National Poetry Month:

Read (finish!) three books that have won the National Book Award for Poetry

Mark Doty: Fire to Fire
Jean Valentine: Door in the Mountain
Lucille Clifton: Blessing the Boat
Ai: Vice
Philip Levine: What Work Is
Galway Kinnell: Selected Poems
Marilyn Hacker: Presentation Piece
Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck
Frank O'Hara: The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara

winds will move us around

writing goals for March-May of 2011

-publish "Why I Write" in a literary magazine
-publish "The American Library" in a literary magazine

Books Read in 2011

1. The American Prose Poem by Michel Delville

2. The Calculus of Owls by Sarah J. Gardner
3. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
4. Bodyworld by Dash Shaw
5. P.S. Your Cat is Dead by James Kirkwood
6. Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
7. Feminism Is For Everybody by bell hooks
8. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
9. Crush by Richard Siken
10. People Who Are in Love Will Read This Book Differently by Cindy St. John
11. Special Exits by Joyce Farmer
12. Wonderful Company of Fletchers by James Tate
13. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
14. Invincible by Cristy Road
15. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
16. Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray
17. The Best American Poetry edited by Amy Gerstler
18. Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
19. The Best American Essays edited by Kathleen Norris
20. Unconsummated by Jen Cross
21. Thank You Notes by Jimmy Fallon
22. The Tiny Wife by Andrew Kaufman
23. The Little Prince by Antoine De-Saint Exupery
24. Important Comics by Dina Kelberman
25. How Like Foreign Objects by Alexis Orgera
26. AM/PM by Amelia Gray
27. Caucasia by Danzy Senna
28. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
29. Of Lamb by Matthea Harvey
30. The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo
31. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
32. The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
33. Clumsy by Jeffrey Brown
34. Lucky by Gabrielle Bell
35. Nobody Passes, edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore
36. Butch is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman
37. Bluets by Maggie Nelson
38. Meno by Plato
39. Scheherazade: Comics About Love, Treachery, Mothers, and Monsters edited by Megan Kelso
40. So Many Ways to Sleep Badly by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
41. That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
42. Cunt by Inga Muscio
43. The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
44. Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Volume 1 by Michael Kupperman
45. What I Did. by Jason
46. It Chooses You by Miranda July
47. The Heat and the Hot Earth by Adam Gnade

there goes the fear

if I am going to be mad in love with you, I guess I just will, and it will be the best.

because, o god, o god, o boy, o aaron, am I ever in love with you.

you are. I love you.