Book fair season is finally here! Buy for yourself or a beloved & help us raise funds for the Arab Resource & Organizing Center! Check out the link below to grab a signed copy of my book, A Most Natural Thing, from the Brew & Forge Book Fair ❤️📚 www.brewandforge.com/bookfair

I love her writing.

ymlp.com/zUDKkN Got a manuscript? Send it to a supportive high quality press with integrity and sister-love! Send it to Perugia. And poetry always wins. @perugiapress.bsky.social

The light this time of year…stuff poems are made of….

Every share helps, 8 hours left ⚠️ Every hour or two, every day, every week. Because our promise is reliable support for these six families through still-malnutrition, still-blockade, still-displacement, still-survival. Anything helps. 322/1000

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world, is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." —David Graeber Art by Kate DeCiccio (Imagination Card - www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...)

I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

Perimenopause poems, anyone? That’s what I’ll be reading in cohort with these gifted poets. Join us!

It’s wild to me that humans think *anything* in nature might not have a function (like river sediment is just, I don’t know, leftover dust 🤦🏾‍♀️), but this is good news.

What I’m doing this weekend

It is not lost on me that we currently don't have a United States Poet Laureate. Ada Limón's second term ended in April. I don't know if there have been other gaps; all of the information I can find suggests that the Poet Laureate position has been filled officially since 1985. 1/3

Organizer 101 Training www.mobilize.us/activateamer...

How I do love an origin myth…written and rewritten and written again. It’s our birthright to do so. “In the new mythology, you are always whole.” Happy Juneteenth!

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Screen-free Sunday’s ultra satisfying read….

Screen-free Sunday spent with friends…

MUST READ especially for climate change concerned folks who think they can choose silence on genocide: “War causes extensive, long-lasting environmental damage, affecting landscapes, ecosystems, biodiversity, and vital resources.” 🧪 @iuscientist.bsky.social www.iuscientists.org/militarism-a...

Lisbeth White will be at the Writing&& Retreat coming up this May in BC through Artists&&. Lisbeth will “lead a generative workshop on ritual, reverence, and spell-casting. Together, we’ll find playful and heartfelt ways to connect with our writing and the world around us.” @earthmaven.bsky.social

I’m turning Sunday’s screen-free (no phone, no computer, no tv) and it’s really upping my reading game. Spent yesterday with this collection and it was sooooo good. Got me in my lyrical feels about loneliness and connection. Devoured it! Thanks for your gifts @goldengxl.bsky.social

Excited for this one!

“We love us” Earth Day book sale collaboration! Read on! 🌱🌟🌍

Special guest for National Poetry Month Juan Felipe Herrera. These words from "Landing on Earth Tomorrow": "The first thing I will do is feed the sparrows/i will kneel in front of the last trees & last/lakes & ask for forgiveness"

Cheers to Dennis James Sweeney on the publication of How to Submit! One of three case studies features Lisbeth White & her path to publication of American Sycamore with Perugia Press. Thanks for sharing your story @earthmaven.bsky.social & to Dennis for including it in this important resource. 💞📖💞

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

I love independent lit community. There’s nothing like having one’s work uplifted beyond the launch year! Thanks @asterismbooks.bsky.social & @perugiapress.bsky.social Big love to you 💕

It’s my birthday week. Please enjoy this contemplation of the thousand ways light loves water.

If you’re a QTBIPOC and you have a therapist, and you’re in need of financial assistance, you can apply for funding that pays your therapist up to $125 per session for 8 sessions. Applications open March 17. nqttcn.com/en/mental-he...

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection AMERICAN SYCAMORE by Lisbeth White. Find more prompts, sample poems & discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out White’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @earthmaven.bsky.social

i think the economic boycott has had further reach because the poster is so cute. okay bunny i will listen to you.

What the what??? 😮 I used to skip school to go hang out in these stacks. I’m having wild time-space continuum breaching visions about my 15 year old self finding this chapbook on the shelf while avoiding a trig test. 😂 Thanks to all who ordered!! How dreamy 🥰🥰🥰 …..also, the titles on this list….❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Listen, things are fucked, but that doesn’t mean your accomplishments don’t matter. Wrote a book? Got accepted to a program? Recorded a song? One year sober? Whatever it is, share it. Maybe your joy will bring someone else a bit of joy, and we all need that.

Hi, I'm Nic, and I'm happy to share that I'm now cancer-free.  But I recently learned that I'm ineligible for disability pay at my job. Donations will reimburse expenses and pending medical bills while on leave.  I'm grateful for any support. 
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Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

It’s pub day!! 🎉 Maybe someday I’ll stop writing incredibly intimate, vulnerable things and turning them into books but today is not that day 🫠 Order here: redmarepress.com/books/a-most...

That time we all heard it, cool and clear, cutting across the hot grit of the day. — that we are each other’s harvest: we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond. “Paul Robeson” by the great Gwendolyn Brooks #everynightapoem #blackhistorymonth

Dionne Brand delivers a masterclass in reading the literature of empire from an anti-colonial lens — watch the full hour-long event as part of the VWF Digital Festival. 📣 The last day to purchase a Digital Festival pass is Jan 26! writersfest.bc.ca/event/digita...

Jan 16: Lisbeth White - author of 'American Sycamore' (Perugia Press); co-editor of 'Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, essays, and prompts for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power' (North Atlantic Books) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe4z... #poetry #poetrycommunity

It’s still January. Loving this poem and loving this lake. Sigo caminando.