How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography
M. Leona Godin Considers, Among Other Things, the Enduring Trope of the Blind Pencil Vendor
January 4, 2024
By M. Leona Godin
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M. Leona Godin
M. Leona Godin is the author of There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness (Pantheon, 2021). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, Catapult, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and others. Her online magazine, Aromatica Poetica, is an arts and culture laboratory for the advancement of smell and taste. As a 2023-24 New York Public Library Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow, she is currently working on a series of essays about photography, blindness, and image description.
On the Cultural Figure—and Lived Reality—of the Blind Writer
M. Leona Godin Considers Homer, Borges, and the Large Gap Between Metaphorical and Practical
June 7, 2021
By M. Leona Godin
