UPDATE ON DORA
Beautiful people, Dora was involved in a serious auto accident in early May 2021, which has required her to focus her energies on recovering from the injuries she sustained in…
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Happy International Women’s Day! I spent my morning having the honor of visiting my high school and Betsy Hickman, who was my English teacher in both middle school and high…
APRIL SUPPORTS SURVIVORS
Beautiful people, April is recognized as National Sexual Assault Awareness Month and National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and it also contains National Crime Victim’s Rights Awareness Week. In honor of survivors of childhood sexual…
PORTRAITS OF POETS
April is National Poetry Month! And in honor of the monthlong celebration, American photographer Jill Krementz has created this beautiful Photo Journal of the poets she has photographed across her…
FIRST THOUGHT: 3 10 2021
First thought: Today the daylight is 2 minutes and 19 seconds longer than yesterday.Second thought: Rise up in half-light, naked and alone, windchimes, bare tree branches in the gusts like shadows of…
FEBRUARY IS THE CRUELEST MONTH, or SMALL ACTIONS THAT SUPPORT YOU BEING FULLY PRESENT
I think that T.S. Elliot had it wrong when he famously said that "April is the cruelest month" as the opening to his poem, The Wasteland, written in 1922 for…
CELEBRATION IS ANOTHER WORD FOR ALIVE
A long time ago, a man I once tried to love nearly killed me, held me at gunpoint and brutalized me for 17 hours in what had once been our…
WOMEN IN FULL BADASSERY AT THE INAUGURATION
I love the wild and clever array of memes celebrating Bernie Sanders at the United States Inauguration on Wednesday January 20, wearing his knitted mittens and looking like he had…
THREE BY FIVE EXPLORES THE UNEXPECTED BLESSINGS OF 2020
In sixth grade, I met Jennifer Rickards in Reading Class while we were reading Shakespeare out loud, and Jen and I have been dear friends ever since. Our friendship has…
OPENING THE DOOR TO 2021
Me opening the door to 2021, a little hopeful, a little hesitant, and a little bemused after the rodeo that was 2020. I hope each one of you has got…
CARTOGRAPHY
The moon is rising above the spine of the mountains where I live. It is clear and cold tonight, the sky vaulted cobalt, pinned with attendant stars, only hours before…
YOU MIGHT AS WELL LOVE
For so many reasons, obvious and otherwise, I've returned to reading one poem by another writer and writing one new prayer of my own, every day, in an effort toanchor…
WRITING PRAYERS FOR ALL OF US
The world seems determined to go to hell in the proverbial hand basket, so I went and got a new helmet that I love, and I’m writing in White Sands…
INTO THE WILD
I’m out for a few days, 9,000 feet up, thin air, big sky and an endless range of mountains stacked against each other. New Mex locks down again on Monday,…
THIS MOMENT
This moment we are living, right now, is lifetimes in the making."Rosa sat so Ruby could walk, so Kamala could run."ALL PEACE TO EACH ONE OF YOU. DORA(My thanks to…
GRACE TO HOLD US ALL
Please be kind. Please be gentle with yourself, and with the people around you. Please remember to breathe evenly when you feel yourself breathless, and to look at the sky…