Archive - A Penny Spinning

a loose, fluid-rich ekphrasis

Aug 5 •

July 2025

Oh, Body of Velvet!

a series of increasingly coarse fragments from a memoir & research proposal

Jul 4 •

April 2025

what a wolf knows

on Bhanu Kapil's Humanimal: a project for future children

Apr 25 •

a letter to my son

on Louise Bourgeois's Maman (1999)

Apr 11 •

March 2025

It Felt Good To Hold That Metal

on a paragraph from Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina

Mar 28 •

Incremental Heart: Carolee Schneemann's Hand Heart for Ana Mendieta

The list of materials is enough to set me reeling.

Mar 14 •

February 2025

notes from a rageful mother

Feb 11 •

September 2024

notes from a tired mother

Sep 26, 2024 •

April 2024

This morning I wiped my toddler clean of his shit while he squirmed and I blinked against the pain in my head.

Apr 25, 2024 •

March 2024

notes on a dream of Clarice Lispector's "The Apple In The Dark"

Mar 4, 2024 •

December 2023

Dec 19, 2023 •

November 2023

notes from a new mother

Nov 9, 2023 •

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