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Somewhere there's a road
Catastrophe thinking as creative practice, why the hell I'm like this, and breathing. Also a poem, a beautiful poem! This one by Ross Gay.
Feb 6
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A secret providence
The wedding industrial complex is designed (like everything else) to make us miserable! Happy almost anniversary to me and my friend here! Also a…
Jan 23
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In the middle of everything
We're going back to the desert not a minute too soon. I struggle with patience. I have many books. And a poem—a sonnet!—by Diane Seuss.
Jun 7
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We sang songs
Listen now | On feeling a way through the day, one line at a time, when everything is hard and also on fire. Plus two poems by Naomi Shihab Nye and…
May 8
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We live instead
Here's a new fun game called more or less to help us get through the dark days. Let me read you two poems, two very good poems.
Feb 27
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Your heart is an accordion
Looking back with gratitude at the last month, an absurd new intention, and a poem by Mahogany L. Browne.
Apr 3
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If I write a love poem
In praise of the liberatory imagination and a poem by Miguel James.
Mar 6
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Better questions
Good questions, the lessons, a check-in for spring, and three new piping hot poems.
Apr 17
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The next world
Joy Harjo, Ada Limón, a map or a lack thereof, and the trees begin to green.
Apr 11, 2021
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These days
A meditation, I suppose, on grief. Plus I read you two poems and also a third, but it's still a work in progress. Just like the rest of us.
Nov 14, 2021
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This place could be beautiful
I get sentimental after midnight. Also a poem you know and love.
Jun 30
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Take the breath
The name of the game is to just keep breathing. Let's get a little unhinged and listen to a guided meditation, which isn't that at all.
Dec 5, 2021
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