"Buy nothing for a day" is a good start. Buy nothing for a week if you can. And if you're able to, buy nothing inessential for as long as possible. Chop the head off the snake.

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.

Too often in workshops and classrooms there is a concentration on the poem's garments instead of its life's blood. —Linda Gregg, from “The Art of Finding”

can't stop thinking about this little (vast) poem

My favorite Christmas Eve tradition is reading this Hala Alyan poem

Happy Solstice from this prayer of a poem by Linda Gregg

Paul Celan said that the poem was no different from a handshake... The handshake is our decided ritual of both asserting (I am here) and handing over (here) a self to another. Hence the poem is that—Here. I am here. —Claudia Rankine, from Don't Let Me Be Lonely

"despite it all..." we keep trying. poem by @nikitagill.bsky.social

Good time to share that I talked poetry, grief work & granny witches with @talkdeath.bsky.social & am so grateful for this conversation