poetry

June 28th, 2026

Photographs by Anne Brigman Natural Woman: Rediscovering Anne Brigman's Pagan Vision (via Poetry Magazine ): While on one of these trips, Br...

June 17th, 2026

The most important work I will ever do is to bear witness to my life, to affirm that my life matters even if it does not look like anyone el...

June 13th, 2026

A year ago, this was my mother's last full day of life. Looking back, I now know this was the eve of her death. I started reading a biograph...

May 17th, 2026

Tonight, I started reading Nadia Anjuman's Smoke Drifts . Anjuman was a gifted Afghan poet who wrote under terrible persecution and confinem...

April 24th, 2026

My mother was my life, and she saved my life. Without her, I would not have survived my father's death in my teens. How do I survive her dea...

April 16th, 2026

I love the symmetry of these two cards from The Wild Unknown tarot deck. On the left is 6 of Swords, on the right is 6 of Wands. I pulled th...

April 11th, 2026

Started reading Edith Södergran's Modern Woman , published by World Poetry Books The following poems are not from the collection, but they g...

March 29th, 2026

I had such a nourishing weekend. I read Ray Bradbury's short stories, worked on my upcoming episode about Babette's Feast , made cottage che...

March 21st, 2026

I am scared of this grief. I feel like I am dying of grief. I miss my mother and father so much. There was a family of deer in the yard at d...