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This Day 15 of my 1000-Day MFA, a DIY education project I’ve undertaken that I learned about from writer Shaunta Grimes. You can read more about how I’m engaging with it here. By the way, there often is no rhyme or reason to how I choose the poems, essays, and short stories. I just throw my net out, and gather up what comes in.
Poem:
Woo Woo Roll Deep
by Angel Nafis
Essay:
Letters from a Region in My Mind
by James Baldwin
from The New Yorker, 11/17/62
Short Story:
Biography of a Dress
by Jamaica Kincaid
Woo Woo Roll Deep
Some writing makes you homesick for a home you’ll never have. I remember feeling that when I read a book by Martin Prechtel called Secrets of the Talking Jaguar. The poem Woo Woo Roll Deep is a romp through the idiosyncrasies of a tightknit group of friends. I am brought in, plopped into the middle, shown the detailed close-ups. And at the same time, I feel something similar to the ‘homesickness’ I felt reading the Prechtel book.
In both cases, I can almost see my breath fogging up the glass between us, as I look in from the outside —…
