COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION #13, The Worst Kind Of Trouble Is No Trouble At All
Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston On IN THE CITY This Monday
The #1 thing that makes us grow as human beings is pain.
โDamien Echolsโฆbasically, Iโm an exterminator
and I love my job.
โAmanda Johnston
This Monday, April 1st, I'll be hosting Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston on ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ป๐ธ ๐ถ๐ผ๐๐; to discuss #blackpoetsspeakout and her work with Torch Literary Arts.
Iโll be participating in the 30 for 30 challenge again this year; writing and sending out a poem every day of National Poetry Month, reflecting on what I call my third act and compiling my 9th collection of the same name.
THE WORST KIND OF TROUBLE IS NO TROUBLE AT ALL, excerpted below, is free for paying subscribers.
I saved my own life last summer by covering as a journalistโs beat my own urge to die. HOW TO SAVE A LIFE, roundly rejected by lit mags and pop-psych journals, was a column serialized exclusively for my patrons and paid subscribers on here; and the chronicling of literally surviving capitalism, living down a couple-two-tree decades of trauma and finding for a reason to live and even thriveโฆ
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