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		<title>Literary Death Match Tonight! #literatithursday</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/03/18/literary-death-match-tonight-literatithursday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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It ain&#8217;t a poetry slam, but it should be a lot of fun. I&#8217;m pretty stoked to participate. If you love me, you&#8217;ll send out good vibes and deep breaths my way. If you&#8217;re in the area, I&#8217;d love to see your friendly faces in the crowd. 
Here are your deets: 
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		<title>i got a story to tell.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/03/09/i-got-a-story-to-tell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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I was a senior in college when Biggie died. It was a Sunday. We spent the rest of the night in Steve and El B&#8217;s suite in East Campus like we did six months before, the night Pac was murdered. We listened to Big for hours. We talked about hip hop. We talked about guns. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&blog=8733293&post=745&subd=thebellewetherstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Union Station Magazine- a new literary mag.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/03/03/union-station-magazine-a-new-literary-mag-insomniac-diary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Dear poets and prosy persons alike.  I&#8217;m truly happy to announce the arrival of Union Station Magazine.  The brand new lit mag from the folks who brought you the louderARTS Project.  We&#8217;re giddy about the great work in this soft debut issue.  Serious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&blog=8733293&post=742&subd=thebellewetherstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the playlist.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/02/16/the-playlist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write to music. In fact, I can&#8217;t write without it. It helps me immerse myself in a scene or setting. To pretend that there isn&#8217;t a soundtrack to our lives is just disingenuous. And while I&#8217;m editing and organizing the launch of a new project, my iTunes playlist lands on an oldie but goodie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&blog=8733293&post=738&subd=thebellewetherstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>bookmarks.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/02/09/bookmarks-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing and thinking a lot about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of you know this from an earlier post. As a result, my reading list is unending. Yesterday’s New York Times has also spotlighted this latest trend of war literature written service men and women, first person narratives of current wars:
The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&blog=8733293&post=725&subd=thebellewetherstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>yahrzeit. charles &#8216;ibo&#8217; balton.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/02/06/yahrzeit-charles-ibo-balton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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December 18, 1954 &#8211; February 6, 2007.
Photo taken at the intersection of West 120th Street, Frederick Douglass Boulevard and St. Nicholas Avenue for the April 20, 2000 issue of New York Magazine.







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		<title>phoning it in.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/01/27/phoning-it-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ta-Nehisi Coates touches on something that I&#8217;ve been stuck on too with respect to the &#8216;freeze&#8217; and POTUS most recent comment about his presidency:
Andrew also notes that it&#8217;s largely a symbolic measure, but has faith that Obama will eventually move to the hard choices around defense and entitlement. I don&#8217;t know. I think the way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&blog=8733293&post=716&subd=thebellewetherstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>i&#8217;m the voice inside your head that you refuse to hear.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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And they say my generation doesn&#8217;t have a protest song.







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		<title>bookmarks.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I read/edit submissions for an upcoming project that I&#8217;ll announce at later time, I&#8217;ve come across an assortment of interesting items on the internets.

A blog devoted to the Best American Short Fiction collections.
A response to photo work of Pieter Hugo&#8217;s Nollywood series via Amy Stein.
A how-to guide to book trailers.
A thoughtful blog about photography.
The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&blog=8733293&post=710&subd=thebellewetherstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>lost in translation.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: This is an extremely meta post.
In response to a recent NYT article in which I was quoted, a very clever reader I assume, googled me, found my Facebook profile and proceeded to send me the following message:
Speak for yourself. Asian and Indian men are raised pretty much by doctors and engineers, and doctors and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&blog=8733293&post=698&subd=thebellewetherstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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