Book bags full of books, a mailer, and a tabletop ping pong setup.
Okay, it's a tough time for northern Minnesota, with Lake Superior threatened by stripped protections. And today we brought books to swap with our neighbors. And there's still tabletop ping pong, and I sent my mom a contributor copy of Ploughshares. Sometimes it snows in April, says Prince.
Thanks, my love!
Ploughshares cover with Jessica Roeder.
I have a story in the new @pshares.bsky.social ! It's a beautiful issue edited by Annie Finch. Just look at that cover . . . I can't wait to read. The story is a circus one and will be in my collection "The Bones of the Mouse Make the Cat" @regalhouse.bsky.social in 2028.
A pair of castanets in black.
I'm practicing castanets, a little each day. It maybe relieves stress. When I first owned these as a teen, I must have learned to play, but I don't remember a word of instruction. Make noise. And please attend your No Kings rally.
Done!
So FL.
Handsome bunch of covers!
Because we all need bunnies. These two look just like our first two companion buns, Barley (gold) and Grendel (gray), who unfortunately, um, would have bit each other if they got this close. But they were sweethearts, hilarious, and teachers.
The American people do not want war.
Trump is threatening an illegal strike on Iran. This will do nothing but bring needless death and destruction.
We cannot let warmongers override Congress's power. No war with Iran.
CBS and Fox are both state tv.
Blue paint on a page from Moby-Dick leaves a new text.
Today's blog post at jessicaroeder.com is from The Other Whale, my paint-on-paper erasure of Moby-Dick. Text is: “and where is the whale? / and / what can be / whale / when / I mark my whalebook / I am driving at / I admit / so much / skin / more tender than the skin of the new-born child”
Thank you, D! You are the best of readers.
Deep gratitude to @regalhouse.bsky.social and @heatherbelladams.bsky.social for this honor. These stories have been in my mind and daily life for years, and it is overwhelming, in a good way, to know that they will be together in print. To everyone with a long-lived writing project: May you persist.
What else is there to say?
Yes!
Ikogaan mikwam! = Ice out!
Ojibwe word of the day! Learning languages is fun and honors our ancestors and future generations. Follow #Ojibwe WOD: www.youtube.com/@anton.treuer Miigwech (thank you)! #ice
Two pages from my erasure of Moby-Dick, with blue paint on the pages obscuring most words to leave a new text.
New post from my painted erasure of Moby-Dick. The text reads: From / the last echo / the old burden / sharp but noiseless / pauses / among the strange things / and / sometimes / some touch / warlike but / deferential / is / received.
www.jessicaroeder.com/blog/iljxeyb7hkbnaugttbgtj0bw7ktf3t
Call them honorary squirrels. Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day.
I will do that! Thank you for this opportunity to ask questions.
. . . both projects, that is!
Thank you, and sorry for double posting. I am deeply committed to both.
Hello, Jennifer. I'm rusty too. Could I ask: I currently have two manuscripts, one literary fiction and one speculative YA. Should I query one at a time but look for people who represent both categories, query different agents, or something else?
That is allowed! Thank you, and love.
Dark blue paint on pages from Moby-Dick leaves a new text.
On my blog at jessicaroeder.com, another two-page spread from The Other Whale, my paint-on-the-page erasure of Moby-Dick. The text reads:
under an abated sun / remember / the hush, the hum / the / mingling threads of life / the secret / murmur / of sharks / joyously / separated
Thanks, maestro dc!
Dark blue paint on a page of Moby-Dick creates a new text.
One more page from my paint-on-paper erasure of Moby-Dick. The text reads, "GIve me / science / to remind the / relics / and / justify / whales"
At my blog at jessicaroeder.com
And happy anniversary to you, my love! Let justice be primary . . . Or there's always ping pong.
Blue paint on two pages from Moby-Dick leave a different text.
Blog post from "The Other Whale," my paint-on-the-page erasure of Moby-Dick. The text reads:
In this business / another / person / is quickly emptied / until the deep will yield no more.
Now, the people in this / wild / oily gurgling / movement seize / the enormous mass / from the violent motions.
Blue paint and ink on a page of Moby-Dick. The ink is a repetition of the word "whale."
Third day of pages from "The Other Whale," my paint-on-the-page erasure of Moby-Dick. See the post at www.jessicaroeder.com/blog/p6cvkhp2m0zy05h9ki6cvmt0yr60kv
Text reads:
The lion
is
old women
out of sight as usual
watching
getting it by heart
