[ ] Dear, I wished you heavens. / If not heavens, earths.

Another brilliant Ladan Osman poem poets.org/poem/after_f...

Diving Deep: On Poet Maud Lavin’s "Swim Lessons" - Pittsburgh Review of Books Maud Lavin, known for acclaimed titles such as Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Höch (Yale UP, named a New York Times Notable

"The pleasure of the Lake has the power to 'blow up boredom like a balloon.' Lavin’s commitment to the water shows us how, these days, joy is a radical act."

@natmija.bsky.social on the #poetry of @maudlavin.bsky.social.

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Did we talk about this article already? The Dispatch's Can Americans Love Poetry Again. So many things wrong with it! I feel like this kind of article comes out every year archive.ph/9pDqO

It’s wild to sit next to someone on the bus and you see that their media diet is literally the same as yours

Talking about travel plans is over, don’t ask me where I am going. Just be happy you’re with me right now

a cardboard box with four columns and four rows of envelopes, each envelop in a column with an increasing point value scrawled on it, from 100-400. Like jeopardy, each column has its own topic, with the questions in the column getting increasingly harder as the point values increase. the topics are: Animals, More Animals, To Many Animals, Overflowing Animals.

my daughter made her own jeopardy game but could only think of one topic 😂

Bless that I am sharing the waiting area with the most theatre gay child and their loving dad

I saw someone walking with a mason jar of tea and a lovely disposition on this fine SPRING day in February and it took me everything to suppress saying “GOOD MORNING FELLOW WALKER!”

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