Rachel Scherrer

The complete sincerity of the desperate cry. Urgency can’t ask please, can’t say excuse me, or might I, can’t make every sentence rise up at the end, which is a social bowing down. It’s time to be loud. Believe me. There are things besides beauty you can create. A distraction while the others make their […]

Our job is to ask, What if? And then to invent answers, to face the blank page and wonder. It’s not a job we can give up at this historical moment. Please don’t stop writing because you feel your voice is not being heard. Don’t join the effort to un-diversify American stories, American lives, American

Not the fraudulent, step-on-people, build enormous walls arrogance. The arrogance of the poet or of the child, who says, “Look,” and it’s something you’ve never seen or something you’ve seen a hundred times, but, “Look,” and the tone, the inquisitive pride of the discoverer makes it new and glorious. That’s what you do, what we