Awful 😭

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

In order to write a book, you have to write a book.

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

#poem using language taken from messages from friends this morning. definitely totally has nothing to do with today's news at all, nope. take someone else's hands and tell them you love them.

#poem using language taken from messages from friends this morning. definitely totally has nothing to do with today's news at all, nope. take someone else's hands and tell them you love them.

shippers late red peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1914

overjoyed to have a poem out on the nation poetry, today.

all thanks to kaveh akbar & the team for making this a reality.

Reminder to tell bluesky about the good things you read. Books, articles, blogs, Greek epigraphs written across your lover's skin, mystical sigils glowing on the walls of a brokedown palace, whatever really. Share good stuff.

"Let my language be clear and dangerous as water."

Poet Danez Smith in the new issue of Mizna on catastrophe

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Today is National Poetry Day so I'm going to again share my favourite contemporary poem, which is I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense by Danez Smith...