#5amwritersclub Semester's almost over and I feel a project coming on...

Sometimes you burn the good fuel.

Sometimes your tap the dirty fuel reserves.

Keep #writing.

Excerpt from the article noting that Obama was one of 22 senators to vote against Robert's because he too often used his legal talents to support the strong over the weak

And you've got to admit that Obama was right...

Father, My father and I are very different and yet there is a ghost of him in my jaw and I can see the same glance haunting in my son.

🔊🔊🔊NEW POEM AUDIO—> “FATHER,”

My father and I are very different and yet there is a ghost of him in my jaw and I can see the same glance haunting in my son.

Hear me read here: tinyurl.com/5ea9pp3f

#poetry #writing #poemsaloud #writingcommunity #blueskydown

Michigan #greatleakesgreattimes

Second Floor Meat.

#leica #leicam6 #film #photography #filmphotography #35mmfilm

The First Chef We Hired One of the tenets of restaurant life: get drunk later. That's usually meant as an invitation, not a warning. Even get tipsy before the shift ends if you can manage. But there's always that one guy.

🔊🔊🔊NEW POEM AUDIO—> “THE FIRST CHEF WE HIRED”

A tenet of restaurant life: get drunk later. That's usually an invitation, not a warning. Even get tipsy before the shift ends if you can manage. But there's always that one guy.

Hear me read: tinyurl.com/2sbpxz8c

#poetryaloud #writing #poemsky

The First Chef We Hired One of the tenets of restaurant life: get drunk later. That's usually meant as an invitation, not a warning. Even get tipsy before the shift ends if you can manage. But there's always that one guy.

🔊🔊🔊NEW POEM AUDIO—> “THE FIRST CHEF WE HIRED”

A tenet of restaurant life: get drunk later. That's usually an invitation, not a warning. Even get tipsy before the shift ends if you can manage. But there's always that one guy.

Hear me read: tinyurl.com/2sbpxz8c

#poetryaloud #writing #poemsky

Ok #teachers and #writers once we're through...what's the summer project? What's the #wip?

I feel like I'm ready to get to the work work, craving it even.

Just keep grading
Just keep grading
Just keep grading grading grading

Hey it's put my life back together day!

Boooooo

Just rewrite every single word and then you're done

Ok, syllabus rebuilding season is just around the corner. #Poets and #teachers and #writers what are some #craft #books you love? Bonus points for syntax and half point deducted for "famous author routines".

In Common When we were young, we fell in love. We grew up together. We worked in all the restaurants together and we got out. And now we share something more than the luck it took.

🔊🔊🔊NEW POEM AUDIO—> We fell in love. We grew up together. We worked in all the restaurants together and we got out. And now we share something more than the luck it took.

Hear me read my poem “IN COMMON” here: tinyurl.com/ytzthtx2

#PoemsAloud #booksky #writing #writingcommunity #poetry

In Common When we were young, we fell in love. We grew up together. We worked in all the restaurants together and we got out. And now we share something more than the luck it took.

🔊🔊🔊NEW POEM AUDIO—> We fell in love. We grew up together. We worked in all the restaurants together and we got out. And now we share something more than the luck it took.

Hear me read my poem “IN COMMON” here: tinyurl.com/ytzthtx2

#PoemsAloud #booksky #writing #writingcommunity #poetry

I wrote about the pleasures of book clubs, particularly when invited to join book clubs reading my work. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

Kermit as a tarot card

Pause from scrolling for 5 mins and self reflect on what the rainbow connection means to you

Spring in War-Time BY SARA TEASDALE I feel the spring far off, far off, The faint, far scent of bud and leaf— Oh, how can spring take heart to come To a world in grief, Deep grief? The sun turns north, the days grow long, Later the evening star grows bright— How can the daylight linger on For men to fight, Still fight? The grass is waking in the ground, Soon it will rise and blow in waves— How can it have the heart to sway Over the graves, New graves? Under the boughs where lovers walked The apple-blooms will shed their breath— But what of all the lovers now Parted by Death, Grey Death?

'Blossoming Trees Along a Hillside,' a painting by John Joseph Enneking, which shows a grassy slope with flowering trees at the top and a pale blue sky with clouds.

Today's experiment emerged from a Bluesky conversation yesterday with @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social. With thanks for his wonderful readings and for other #PoemsAloud contributors who've been sharing audio poems, including:
@janpsolivagant.bsky.social
@johnchmura.bsky.social
@frankhudson.bsky.social

Shapeland.

#japan #tokyo #film #photography

Cover of Andrea Gibson's "You Better Be Lightning" shows a person tying up the moon and holding it like a balloon on a string

Today my writing was reading.

#amreading #5amwritersclub #6amwritersclub

INTERVIEWER Some people say they can't understand your writing, even after they have read it two or three times. What approach would you sug- gest for them? FAULKNER Read it four times.

The Flaw's the Thing: A review of Taylor Johnson's 2020 collection "Inheritance" for Alice James Books This book explores what he woke up in the middle of, arrived on earth and was handed: notions of love and control, gender and sex, self/hood, blackness and Blackness, americanness, class and shards of...

🔊🔊🔊NEW AUDIO—> The Flaw’s the Thing: A Review of Taylor Johnson’s 2020 collection “Inheritance”

Hear me read the full review here: tinyurl.com/4vtwwdfc

#poemsky #audiobooks #booksky #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #amreading #authors

The Flaw's the Thing: A review of Taylor Johnson's 2020 collection "Inheritance" for Alice James Books This book explores what he woke up in the middle of, arrived on earth and was handed: notions of love and control, gender and sex, self/hood, blackness and Blackness, americanness, class and shards of...

🔊🔊🔊NEW AUDIO—> The Flaw’s the Thing: A Review of Taylor Johnson’s 2020 collection “Inheritance”

Hear me read the full review here: tinyurl.com/4vtwwdfc

#poemsky #audiobooks #booksky #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #amreading #authors

#5amwritersclub #6amwritersclub Do you have a practice or "partner habit" alongside your writing? mindfulness or exercise or a good walk or cooking for yourself or family?

Today my #writing was reflecting on what that extension of that headspace and how I carry that awareness into the day.

#Community is an ingredient and if you don't see it around you, you have to be a part of building it.

No #writer …no artist is an island. Make #art together and share it. Embrace an age of new sincerity.

The American War Against Cuba YouTube video by HasanAbi

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvqe...

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