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Poetry as Spellcasting

Serpent blessings and spirit language | Years in the making, this book is ready to be blessed with fingers and pencil marks, graced with smoke, water…

May 5 •

April 2023

What I learned in loving and caring for Barley | The day Barley died, the crows were everywhere. Some hours after the kind and gentle vet came to help…

Apr 6 •

March 2023

“While I’m On This Journey, Hold My Hand”

Writing toward the end of this world with Destiny Hemphill. I met Destiny Hemphill in 2019 over a bowl of noodles in Seattle’s International District…

Mar 7 •

February 2023

Speaking with spirits, within and without

There’s a particular tree that dances with grace next to the path I often walk next to the Neponset river. This tree caught my attention months ago and…

Feb 5 •

November 2022

“You are born knowing how to make the sounds of your heart”

I was once a celestial being, and becoming human meant that everything that I knew about the universe had to be taken away by the touch of an angel’s…

Nov 8, 2022 •

October 2022

“It’s a good story because it’s a story of victory”

"The United States in its current form was not inevitable," says Kung Li Sun. "Writing this book convinced me it wasn’t even all that probable. And so…

Oct 9, 2022 •

August 2022

Discomfort as teacher, time as abundance

Living through times of dissolution, of the crumbling and tearing down of harmful, violent systems, is painful in so many ways. I’m finding that it’s…

Aug 12, 2022 •

June 2022

Blurring borders in the queerest of ways

What does it mean to be queer, to claim and wield the jagged edge of queerness in this political moment? How do I want to live into my queerness in this…

Jun 14, 2022 •

May 2022

“Burn the house down”

If we—the swirling, angry, loving masses of queers and trans folks, BIPOC folks, poor folks, women, disabled folks, all people committed to a different…

May 16, 2022 •

April 2022

How to find our way back to community

We turn to scrolling or streaming to numb out. Too many of us in our own little spaces, spinning in misery, unable to connect.

Apr 16, 2022 •

March 2022

Ain't no power...

The events over the last few weeks have forced me dig deep to access my resilience. I’m wondering what can support me in the face of overwhelming…

Mar 18, 2022 •

February 2022

“There is no chance that we will fall apart”

It’s extremely challenging to think that I am of a whole with, say the Arkansas parents who find my and other queer and BIPOC women’s poems obscene and…

Feb 16, 2022 •

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