Sommer
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Poet who/which/that writes about art. All opinions expressed are your own. www.sommerbrowning.com
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I did an experiment. I wrote a new essay called, Artifice is Revolting: What I Wanted to Read About "The Substance" but Nobody Wrote. And I made it into a PowerPoint. Check it out here:
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Artifice is Revolting: What I Wanted to Read About "The Substance" but Nobody Wrote
An essay. A powerpoint.
https://vimeo.com/1029444263?share=copy
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If you know, you know. And we all know.
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Precious Rubbish is Kayla E’s new intense, stark graphic novel about a harrowing childhood boldly illustrated in a kind of 50s era Aw Shucks style. I wrote about her & her book talk tomorrow at VCU.
www.styleweekly.com/panelling-pa...
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Panelling Pain
Kayla E. comes to VCU with her new graphic novel featuring an unflinching narrative about a young girl's abusive childhood.
https://www.styleweekly.com/panelling-pain/
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"As someone who works with the body, there’s this clear awareness that bodies are not just neutral instruments that we use to [move].” I had great conversation w Alicia DĂaz, a dancer & professor here in Richmond. Dancers know things in deep, earthly ways. I hope everyone has dancers in their life.
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Ways of Listening
Alicia DĂaz on dance, the body’s knowledge, and co-creating change with “Arts for Climate Justice for Puerto Rico.”
https://www.styleweekly.com/ways-of-listening/
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My record player begins to skip about 13 minutes in but it doesn’t matter when you listen to Steve Reich.
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NewLights Press
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interviewed the authors of American Weather, Mary Margaret Alvarado and
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for the Brooklyn Rail. It's a very sad and hopeful book. I am happy to have helped with it.
brooklynrail.org/2025/03/art_...
#letterpress
#bookarts
#booksky
#printmaking
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​​MARY MARGARET ALVARADO, CORIE J. COLE, & AARON COHICK with Sommer Browning | The Brooklyn Rail
Poet, artist, and publisher discuss the making of the collaborative artist book American Weather. Originally published as an essay in 2016, the artist book is about gun violence in the USA, as well as...
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/03/art_books/mary-margaret-alvarado-corie-j-cole-and-aaron-cohick-with-sommer-browning/
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American Weather is a beautiful, hyper-local artist book about something very terrible, gun violence in the USA. I interviewed poet Mary Margaret Alvarado, publisher Aaron Cohick, and ceramicist Corie J. Cole about how they made it. It’s over at The Brooklyn Rail.
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​​MARY MARGARET ALVARADO, CORIE J. COLE, & AARON COHICK with Sommer Browning | The Brooklyn Rail
Poet, artist, and publisher discuss the making of the collaborative artist book American Weather. Originally published as an essay in 2016, the artist book is about gun violence in the USA, as well as...
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/03/art_books/mary-margaret-alvarado-corie-j-cole-and-aaron-cohick-with-sommer-browning/
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Goldfish is a great comic by Rae Whitlock. I got to talk with her and write about her work.
www.styleweekly.com/exploring-co...
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Exploring Connections
Rae Whitlock on making comics and grasping ideas from the ether.
https://www.styleweekly.com/exploring-connections/
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I'll have what she's having but she's having trouble listening to your excuses.
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I'll have what she's having but she's having a nightmare with that flailing bald guy again.
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I'll have what she's having but she's having sextuplets and just got furloughed.
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I'll have what she's having but she's having a warrant served on your mom.
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I'll have what she's having but she's having a grand mal seizure.
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I'll have what she's having but she's having a moons over my hammy.
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I am have-to-do-math-in-my-head years old.
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When people say someone is their rock I only picture a pee rock that you put in a litter box so your rat will pee in the right place.
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If you are a glass half empty person you are being mean to air. Also if you are a glass half full person.
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A lot of people on teevee have veins popping out of their heads when they smile or are being dramatic or are just looking off into the distance and I think it's because they are unhealthy, maybe malnourished.
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I am developmentally editing a novel right now, and have recently written wall text for a painter’s new show & edited a YA novel in verse. I love doing this work. Let me know if you need any help.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Each spam number I block leads me one step closer to my life goal of blocking every possible phone number in the universe.
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What a wonderful thing it was to talk with IBĂ© Bulinda Crawley about her incredible artist books (each one a kind of compassionate & fierce time machine) and her process of hand crafting them. Thank you,
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burnaway.org/magazine/a-r...
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The Artist Books of IBĂ© Bulinda Crawley
Sommer Browning interviews IBĂ© Bulinda Crawley on her artist books and her founding of the IBĂ© Arts Institute in Hopewell, Virginia.
https://burnaway.org/magazine/a-responsible-spirit-the-artist-books-of-ibe-bulinda-crawley/
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I forgot I stopped eating wheat and bought 300 pierogis at Costco.
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Sometimes I just randomly say BuxTONNN like how PeeWee did.
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Saw the Glenn Ligon backwards through the windows of the VMFA late last night and shit that was intense.
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I feel better in public.
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You had me at "A corpse is discovered in a scrap yard...
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I jog like no one is watching.
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Our community radio station in Richmond rules. I hear from my neighbors and others I trust and value, and good music. Do you have a good community radio station in your town? (I am not talking about public radio.)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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List of community radio stations in the United States - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_radio_stations_in_the_United_States
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What if dinosaurs were just bones.
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Unwinding after a long day by drinking wine and freezing my credit.
www.nerdwallet.com/article/fina...
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Lol these ads that are still trying to get us to lose weight & buy shit hahahaaaaaaaaaaaa
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A thing to do today: Go to the closest library to your house.
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I wonder if we will have avocados anymore.
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A long time ago someone told me to “take as long as you need” and I’m still there taking that time.
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Did the groundhog see his hog? Or what.
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You can take the continental philosopher out of Arby’s but you can’t take the etc.
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No one hits their inhaler right in movies.
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A thing to do today: Write your favorite word in a public place. Tomorrow there will be another “a thing to do today.”
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A thing to do today: Join the ACLU. Tomorrow there will be another “a thing to do today.”
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My child thought Wrong Norma wrote a book called Anne Carson and that is a good sign.
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You call it living your best life I call it fancy waiting.
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My child just turned me onto Tom Lehrer.
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Do you you ever look in the mirror and think, Who in their right mind would serve that person expensive Spanish ham?
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If you decorate for Valentine’s Day you are part of the problem.
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Not enough accordion jokes. Oh yeah? Accordion who?
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Trying to move one of those expensive Spanish hams with my mind.
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I think my child thinks moms stand near the garbage can a lot for some kind of mom reason. And that we’re impressed there is a calculator on our phones. And when they close the door to their room we’re folding and unfolding chairs if we’re even conscious at all.
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Every night I cast a spell to disintegrate all the world’s NDAs.
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Everyone’s like, You should borrow a cat! [we have mice] And I’m like, Can we borrow yours? And they’re like, Oh no, sorry, our cat has anxiety/is lazy/is a pacifist/needs to sleep with me. Cats are bad asses in theory only.
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Endless Screaming
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