Sometimes, When The Light 💙

LOVE this whole part of Anya interviewing Richie Hofmann for his POTW interview 💙 "...tension between proximity and incongruity." ⛓️‍💥

From the beloved beat poet, Diane di Prima's "Revolutionary Letters" (1971) 📩

Richie Hofmann, our Poet of the Week 💙

and what's still stuck in your teeth & lingering on your tongue? 👄 ig: heartattacksputmetosleep

"And you knew me So fleetly" Richie Hofmann, our Poet of the Week 💙

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Anya asks Richie Hofmann in his Poet of the Week interview: How do you think politics fits into your work? And an even more obnoxious question: What power do you think poetry has to shift the arc of history? 📑

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Richie Hofmann, our Poet of the Week 💙

The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1946) 🌙

poetry prompt of the week: in english, they say that "it's never over"— but poets say:

In Conversation w/ Irène Mathieu 💙 You write, “every time you create life / you die a little bit.” That’s such a different metaphor than the usual motherhood celebration. How do you write about motherhood without sentimentality? What does it mean to be possessed by your child, then cast off?

Margaret Atwood, from an essay featured in "In Other Worlds," (2011) 📝

Irène Mathieu offers this beautifully human sentiment for honoring your inner writer's voice in reply to the following question from Karan: What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received? & what would you tell other poet-doctors, other poet-mothers, about making time for the work? 💙

and i will continue to dream of such a love 💙

"Thetis" 🕊️ found in the powerful collection by Carol Ann Duffy, "The World's Wife"

In Conversation w/ Irène Mathieu 💙 “I wonder if to make art / you must be aware you’re making art.” You’re painting tomatoes on cast iron (such a wonderful way of looking at cooking), pushing your daughter on a swing, getting an ultrasound. I welcome you to share any thoughts on making art.

Susan Sherman 💙

Irène Mathieu, our Poet of the Week 💙

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Irène P. Mathieu, our Poet of the Week 💙

The passion endures, imprinted on his being Though he can't recall the rest.

T.S. Eliot

topics i'm writing about these days—what are you writing about? 🌀

In Conversation with Irène Mathieu, our Poet of the Week 💙

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poetry prompt of the week: what is something you desire closure on? envision it as a wound that is still open—you've been keeping it clean this whole time but covering it with gauze every day so it's out of sight. can you take the needle and thread and take sewing it back up, line by line?

May Sarton 💙

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I said, "Is it good, friend?"

I think that I forgot to forget.

Late Echo 💙

a haiku for your morning 🌅

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...and what's the use of light when there's no shade first?

HELMUT LANG. SÉANCE DE TRAVAIL 1986–2005

...it is never too early nor too late 💙

A brief snippet of a beautiful June letter 💙

"Mirror" 🪞 an *incredible* mirror poem by Rita Dove

lovely word that entered the lexicon today!!!!!

A pity.

poetry prompt of the week: what if god has been sending you your divine intervention guidance via email and they've all been going to your junk mail?

good vibes Frank Kafka this time ✨

If I didn't care, I wouldn't be grieving.

you'll get through it, kid. trust me.

the addition of @/totally not a fish in really made the quote full circle for me

I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting.

i must update that i am at a resale bookstore picked up a copy of Dante's Inferno and opened it to this EXACT SAME TRANSLATOR'S NOTE