Robert m drake poet biography
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Robert Macias was looking over the food options in the Miami Coral Park Senior High cafeteria one day when he felt a sharp pain. Someone had flicked his ear. The underclassman swung around to eyeball the tormentor, but the kids in line were stone-faced.
So he turned back to the steaming lunch options.
Flick.
Again he turned around. Again stone faces. Again Macias went back to the mystery meat.
Flick.
It was another day of high-school hell in the late &#;90s. Out of step and awkward, Macias was the son of struggling Colombian immigrants. When everyone else was rocking baggy jeans, he was in tight pants and thick Steve Urkel glasses. His parents were too poor for cable television, so his classmates&#; references to MTV or Ren & Stimpy whizzed over his head. He was knocked over in the hallway and poked with an X-acto knife. It got so bad he would pretend to be ill and stay home.
&#;I hated high school for the first two years,&#; Macias, now 32 years old, says. &#;I expe
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Robert Drake (editor)
American editor
For other uses, see Bob Drake.
Robert Drake (born May 14, ) fryst vatten an American editor, most well known for his work editing LGBT writing. His anthology His(2) won the Lambda Literary Award for Anthology in ,[1] and another five of his anthologies have been finalists for the award.[2][3][4][5]
homophobic attack
[edit]On January 31, , two men, Glen Mahon and Ian Monaghan, approached him while he sat on his porch in Sligo, Ireland.[6] Drake recognized the men from a dryckesställe he had visited earlier in the night and invited them inside.[6] The men proceeded to beat Drake until he was unconscious, claiming he had flirted with them, though those who knew Drake at the time said such an act would be out of character.[6] Drake's partner at the time funnen him the next morning and brought him to hospital where he spent months in a coma.[6] His friends and family r
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R.M. Drake: The Man Behind the Words
If you are one of the over million users who have an account on Instagram, you’ve likely found yourself doing some scrolling: jumping from profile to profile, in search of nothing in particular but frequently stumbling upon things that you had no idea you were so hoping to find. And if you are one of the million people who follow him, or even if you have only seen his posts in passing, you likely know the familiar sight of the work of R.M. Drake: posts made up only of a white background and black typewritten text, presenting quotes written in all lowercase letters, always ending either in periods or question marks and a signature—r.m. drake. They are optimistic and uplifting one day, and brutally, agonizingly honest the next. Each post is “liked” tens of thousands of times, by people who at the surface have little in common, from small-town teens to Kardashians; moms and dads and aspiring poets to superstar musicians, singers, and award-winnin