Lovely post and poem! So happy you got those awards. Well-deserved. I can't wait to read that novel, since, as you know, I am mining the same territory. And No, no longer the acquisitions editor! Not that you don't deserve and need a break and more time to write. 🥳
Oh Julia! You astound me. What a talent you are. This article brought tears to my eyes. (Unfortunately, I wasn't able to read your essay since I don't subscribe to that paper.) All I can say is: KEEP WRITING!
You are a beautiful writer, so easy to read...soothing, nourishing. So much that wants to be poetry is not. You are a true poet. Congratulations on your awards. Thanks for the work you're doing on enslavers in your family tree: "Telling these stories helps publicly reveal the depths of depravity hitherto unacknowledged in our privileged family. My whiteness has been my blessing, and I cannot forgive myself for it." So much of my creative inspiration comes from what's on the flip side of that coin: a descendant of the enslaved. My blackness has been a curse as well as a blessing.
Oh, Brenda, I feel this so much. Thank you for saying so. There is so much to excavate, and we can't just shrug it off. I appreciate your wise truths. <3
Congratulations on your artist visibility! You opened those doors with talent and intention. YAY!!
xo
Thank you!
Lovely post and poem! So happy you got those awards. Well-deserved. I can't wait to read that novel, since, as you know, I am mining the same territory. And No, no longer the acquisitions editor! Not that you don't deserve and need a break and more time to write. 🥳
Congratulations and wow - what an artist's statement. I am humbled!
congratulations, Julie! i really love your statement, and with your grant you'll be able to research even more deeply.
Wow, congratulations Julia! What an essay. Thank you for it.
You’re so talented. I saw great things in your future way back in the Modern Muse days. Congrats!
Congratulations on the grant! I was so happy to see your name on the accepted list!
I’m so damn excited for you!!!!
Oh Julia, beautiful as always. So happy for all these acknowledgments of your talent! Bravo!
Oh Julia! You astound me. What a talent you are. This article brought tears to my eyes. (Unfortunately, I wasn't able to read your essay since I don't subscribe to that paper.) All I can say is: KEEP WRITING!
Love your success, love your poem, hate the bug that attacked you, love you, Cuz.
congratulations Julia, on the awards, and the sunflowers:)
You are a beautiful writer, so easy to read...soothing, nourishing. So much that wants to be poetry is not. You are a true poet. Congratulations on your awards. Thanks for the work you're doing on enslavers in your family tree: "Telling these stories helps publicly reveal the depths of depravity hitherto unacknowledged in our privileged family. My whiteness has been my blessing, and I cannot forgive myself for it." So much of my creative inspiration comes from what's on the flip side of that coin: a descendant of the enslaved. My blackness has been a curse as well as a blessing.
Oh, Brenda, I feel this so much. Thank you for saying so. There is so much to excavate, and we can't just shrug it off. I appreciate your wise truths. <3