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50 Books By POC Suggested Reading: Updated 2014 & An Evolving Work in Progress

popelizbet May 31, 2014 10:47

50 Books by POC Challenge

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Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101.
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart.
Shobhaa Dé, Bollywood Nights.
Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist. (recommended by DarkFantasy.org POC in Fantasy Roundtable)
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Zarah the Windseeker. (recommended by DarkFantasy.org POC in Fantasy Roundtable)
Nikki Giovanni, Sacred ( Read more... )

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new things. new things featuring s00j & the pope. squeeeeeeee.

popelizbet Jul 20, 2011 15:51

Hello again!

I have something very exciting to share with you. As many of you know, I adore goblinfruit, brainchild of tithenai and mer_moon, purveyors of poetry of the fantastic.

My new poem, The Sea Witch Talks Show Business, is in the Summer issue of Goblin Fruit. I have wanted to publish with them since I found out they existed, and this poem is one of my favorites ( Read more... )

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popelizbet Jul 14, 2011 10:30

Yes, I know, I am a ghost on LJ these days. Law school eats lives. It's like Cthulhu in that way.

Voting for the 2011 Rhysling Awards is still ongoing through this Friday, July 15 to current members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). My Frankenstein-inspired poem, Anything So Utterly Destroyed, is nominated in the long-form ( Read more... )

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[links] [news] what has the pope been up to?

popelizbet Jun 03, 2011 14:23

Hello Internet of mine! I missed you.

The second year of law school ate my life. I am making no promises about the third. But I promised K. Tempest Bradford (ktempest for her blog feed) that I would give her a links roundup; I know I have some new folks here on LJ since Wiscon; and I have exciting news of all kinds to share.

Today I have an interview ( Read more... )

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this week in omg i am so busy i absolutely do not know how everything will get done

popelizbet Jan 29, 2010 00:13

pretzelcoatl just issued a Pretzel Snake God command for me to "Post moar" and karnythia and her minions are calling for voice posts.

I guess it's a good thing I have one of these winging my way even as we speak. I am an adult, and I deserve an adult glass phone. (The old one was tragic. Ask hnmic. Or thegreenyearI'm donating to Haiti through the law school's fundraisers. There's a ( Read more... )

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popelizbet Jan 10, 2010 11:05

Two things that delight, before I have to go pretend to be an adult for a while:

1.) myrrhmade just sent me the GORGEY gemstone necklace she made me; she made another for my sister following save_dave. Y'all. It is awesome. (Go lookit her LJ for pictures of my sister's stuff.) Blues and greens and purples and I want to hug it2.) Among all the good that is "lunch & ( Read more... )

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popelizbet May 28, 2009 16:41

I am back from Wiscon and there is way too much to talk about in the little bit of time I have before I have to go home and chuck my suitcase in the car to head off to PUF. I should, however, come back from PUF with something approaching a con report (and y’all can check out my post about the Pratchett panel over at wiscon.
(If you’re reading my LJ for ( Read more... )

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The linkspam cometh...

popelizbet Mar 30, 2009 10:36

Been a while. I'm stealing shadesong's format, a little, here. I have collected many things of delight for you recently and had no time to share them.

WRITING

Stories

From A Fly in Amber, redcrowkater's Marshmallows. Shweta-recommended, Pope-tested, hnmic-approved.

Issue Ten of Shimmer, featuring a short story by shweta_narayan as well as others, is available as a free e-download ( ( Read more... )

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popelizbet Feb 08, 2009 02:38

Yeah, I know I said #3 was going to be the awesome Feminism is for Everyone, but I took my damn self out to lunch on Friday, and only realized once I was out that I didn't have a current book in the car, since I had taken Things Fall Apart out and not replaced it with anything. But I had my battered uncorrected proof of Bollywood Nights in the door ( Read more... )

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