How do our movements create resonance(s) between us? asks issue editor Dr. Mita Mahato. ➡️Resonance. I am thinking about insects. Their buzzing, winging, rubbing, clicking, scurrying fill my ears. At its most fundamental, “resonance” means sound again. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

-Our Table - Orchestra - Marulas Three poems from 'body,' a #poetry manuscript by Erica Waters "challenges 'myths of exceptional individualism as constructed within colonial and capitalist contexts.'” Waters is an Assistant Teaching Professor at CSU. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

My Poem Commemorating 9-11 poems.anniefinch.com/occasions/th...

We’re already all here, the lot of us, more than the sum of our parts, oneness not sameness, diversity that spins. Shared meal persists, even when we trust too much in knives, even when we break dishes, spill wine __ From 'Our Table' by Erica Waters aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

Shelter from the Storms: Quiet Collaborations Renga 1 Storm Clouds 2/2/24 Storm clouds loom heavy across distant horizons — ominous portents. Wind and lightning fly fearsome as bountiful rain destroys. ______ ➡️ Dana JS Washington & Janet N. Ryan aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

Mounds of fruit melt in the tired Friday afternoon, and our feet enliven, dance on fermentation grapes, bubbling juices coloring the toes warm, yellow colors; the soles yelp like child-play From 'An Ode on Wine Grapes' by Austin Thornton aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

Nancy Takacs is an award winning poet and the author of eight collections of poetry. ➡️ Discover more of her work in the latest edition of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.

I am like this beetle, tentative and a little blue, or is that the reflection of sky on her back or is it the reflection of my cup as she wanders toward my warm hand? From 'A Whispering Beetle' by Nancy Takacs aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

"Shot in stop motion after Randall’s motion was stopped due to hip surgery fall 2020, this work reveals and revels in the “broken” body, a body replete with the markings of its 40-year career in the dance trenches..." Candy Dish, in our latest edition. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

"my half millimeter of being has evolved for centuries to withstand the prodding of this place, has preserved under the pressure of even the lowest ocean." #TodaysPoem #poetry Tardigrade by Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman (2023 @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/4trran8m

"Throughout the process of co-creating Reckoning and Release: The Blessing of the Fleets by Auset, I came to understand the profound need to evolve beyond a Eurocentric model of the goddess." ➡️ Discover more about this collaboration in the latest edition of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.

Reckoning and Release: The Blessing of the Fleets by Auset, A Ritual Performance Meditation in the Kemetic Month of Parmuti - by Lucia Pavone (Sciarpa Paxton) & Desiree Mwalimu-Banks Watch & listen ➡️ in the latest edition of About Place Journal. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

In the stories my people tell, crickets are the old ones who stay up all night recounting the whole history of the world. The chirping of crickets, our mystics say, is the first sound you hear after you leave your body. From ‘Uhini Nēnē Pele by K. Nuernberger aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

BIO: Lisa Novick is a grant writer & educator who was on LA Mayor Garcetti’s Biodiversity Expert Council & Urban Ecosystems Working Group & outreach & edu. dir. at @theodorepayne.bsky.social…Her writing’s in @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social, @skyislandjournal.bsky.social, @wildroofjournal.bsky.social…

If I were a winter crane fly, my blood would have antifreezing chemical properties. Should light flicker across the eyes at the top of my head, suggesting the air is sunny and just above freezing, something would come alive in me. From 'Umwelten' aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

What is that song you’re singing into my poem, each note dripping paint the hue of mourning? Some poems are a tear-splattered canvas. Everyone has an image or note that lures them home, that recreates their own joyful evening or sad morning into song. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

For my afternoon friends. 👇🏻

I did a quick interview to go with the poem, too. 👇🏻 https://picturajournal.com/interviews/jack-b-bedell-interview/

Wildfires are blazing. Care to reconsider where? Paper mountains. Paper forests. Handle with care the paper lives in paper houses that are not yours but could be. From 'Collaboration of Poetry and Images' by Karen Elias & Marjorie Maddox. #Poetry #Poems #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

There's still time to submit your #Poetry #Prose and #Art to the next issue of our literary journal ➡️ @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social. We invite you to join us in the radical act of creative freedom, to challenge constraint & to imagine liberation in both bold & quiet ways. Submissions due August 1.

With her grandmother, the young girl wades waist-high into a stream sparkling with possibility. It is not enough to fry the fish and serve it on the special dish shaped like a trout. She needs to be part of the scene... From 'Stream, Lake, Ocean' aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

'Ballota- (Black) Horehound' by Petra Kuppers and Orchid Tierney is an astonishing poem that creates a new meaning to form and storytelling. Excerpt: "shout in spores that it is time again unroll your deep taproot anchor, you and me, to make a home..." aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

This is the story of how two scientists, separated by an ocean of water and a chasm of culture, came to collaborate on the creation of an earth-centered anthology of poetry that evoked their love of distant, but not-so-different, homelands. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

"A Sea for Two Voices: Rising from the Depths of Texas", by Tammy Gomez & Liliana Valenzuela, is a collaborative piece about feminism, spirituality, & political climates.They created a manuscript detailing the symbolism of being a 'Whale' in society. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

"A Ribbon in the Sky," an artistic craft piece made from carefully constructed color schemes, pictures, and designs, shows the collaboration between Jacqueline Johnson's art and David Mills' poem "Induction Cuts." (For Tuskegee Airman Harry Stewart Jr.) aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

The question haunts me, everywhere the damage caused when we don’t care. Remotely, someone lies bleeding. _______ From “I Don’t Really Care Do U?” by Karen Brennan & Cynthia Hogue #Poetry #Poem #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

About Place Journal invites submissions for Volume VIII, Issue IV, “On Freedom,” edited by DJ Lee and Michael McDermott, along with assistant editors Rachel Sanchez and Jacob Klaung. ➡️Submissions of #Poetry, #Prose or audio/visual #Art due Aug 1. #LitMag #Writers aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

One time Joseph Rael said to me, “A lot of people have been working on world peace, but we haven’t gotten there yet. You and I have been working on this too long to give up now!” shorturl.at/98u9D @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

Robert Ricardo Reese shares with us what it means to be a poet and a reader. Explore his contributions: 'A Poem Of Fallen Leaves,' 'He Draws Water, and 'Uri-ui Baram-gwa Uri-ui Si, or Our Wind and Our Poem,' in our latest edition. #Poetry #Prose aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

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"Once the Light was captured by a Grandmother in the water of a black pot, they would bless all the plant people of the Wild Places as well as of their gardens" aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref... @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social @soulinmedicine.bsky.social

I am young and kneeling in front of the blinking red light. I can hear my heart banging the way it always does when I get home from school and I am alone and it is blinking. From 'Answering Machine, 1981' by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

We’ll live and die within this dusty womb, animal, vegetable, and mineral swirled into the same deep fund in any and all ways. 🎧“Anyway” is a collaborative poem-song born from shared reverence for the Great Salt Lake. By Ben Gunsberg & Megan Simper aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

One of many compelling works in our the latest edition of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social. Explore more in the Careful/Care-Full Collaboration issue today. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Reservoir Moon – Our Ninth Swim We chose the reservoir because of the moon, September’s second moon. An extra radiance tacked on to the idea of month that once meant one moon only. ________ From 'Immersion' by Eve Müller & Kelly Terwilliger #Poetry #LitMag aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

The Call for Submissions for our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social is open until August 1, 2025. We’re looking for work that explores freedom’s multidimensional nature. Check out the full call ⬇️⬇️

After we had been working together for a few years, Joseph Rael started asking me to finish certain things on some paintings. In “Eagle dancing feather Medicine heals,” Joseph asked me to write “Becoming” & “the people” into the text of the original. t.ly/YK1sd @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

Landscape II: Learn more about Sumeet Singh's artistic practice that encompasses collage and mixed-media art. Singh is an organizer of the 'Let ‘Er Rip' project team, a diverse cross-section of contemporary collage that showed in #Portland, Ore. #Art aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

About Place Journal invites submissions for Volume VIII, Issue IV, “On Freedom,” edited by DJ Lee and Michael McDermott, along with assistant editors Rachel Sanchez and Jacob Klaung. ➡️Submissions of #Poetry, #Prose or audio/visual #Art due Aug 1. #LitMag #Writers aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/

'The Avian Night Sky Collaboration' by MaryBeth Garrigan, Petra Johnita Lommen, and Stephen Wilbers, captures the essence of nighttime avian migration in accordance with climate change, pollution, and survival. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

'Inch by Inch' is a collage composed of 144 one-inch by one-inch collages, by Torea Frey, the Let ‘Er Rip project team organizer. "Art...as a point of connection and empowerment was a crucial aim of the Let ‘Er Rip project and exhibit." Learn more ⬇️ aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

Let ’Er Rip by Neva Delashmutt Sincick ➡️A nonverbal artist tears paper as practice—her work takes center stage in a paper collage project demonstrating the possibilities of collaborating across abilities. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

My collaboration with Athena Kildegaard is up in @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social -- aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

The Intimate Distances ➡️ Check out this collection of poems that were inspired by taking care of and the death of a parent. Poems by Carol Dorf (Founding poetry editor of Talking Writing) and Athena Kildegaard (who teaches at the University of Minnesota Morris). aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

We Feed More Than Hungry Bellies: Creating Community Together at Jubilee Café Rev. Leah Robberts-Mosser, a pastor for the Community United Church of Christ, highlights the work they do at the Jubilee Café in this new issue of About Place Journal. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

It it was sweet to reflect with my brave and brilliant co-editors @maiawilliamsxoxo and @chinabodina about how care shaped and reshaped us in the making of Revolutionary Mothering which is about to celebrate its first decade! @blackearthinst.bsky.social aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

Revolutionary Mothering: Ten Years Later ➡️ Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, & Mai’a Williams share their thoughts on the collaborative project and its impact on their lives and relationships then and now. 🎨 Artwork: Inch by Inch, Torea Frey aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

What might emerge from the collaboration between a photographer and a poet? @blackearthinst.bsky.social Emeritus Fellow Ann Fisher-Wirth and others found a unique and beautiful way to explore the idea. Learn more ⬇️ aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

A cross-country renga since sickness came here the crows have stopped commuting what is it they know? From 'Since Sickness Came Here' by Deirdre Lockwood & Rebecca Starks aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...