What is NaPoWriMo, you ask?  Well, it’s the National Poetry Writing Month, in which participants challenge themselves and each other to write one poem a day each day of April,…

Beautiful people, April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Each year, The National Sexual Violence Resource Center identifies a theme for this year’s campaign. The 2017 theme is Engaging New Voices.…

There are moments in my mind’s eye when I see us. I see him turned away from me, his left shoulder jutting from the sheets like a ridgeline, the nape…

You want to ‘motherfuck’ everyone.You want to punch the old lady in line in the grocery store,in the throat, before she says another word.You want to tell the male barista“It’s…

When there is nothing left to say,who do you pray to?To be delivered,to be returned to your self? Inanna on her hook?Persephone folding winter back?Demeter demanding her daughter’s return? Or…

Today is the birthday of Rosa Parks, the woman known as The First Lady of Civil Rights and The Mother of The Civil Rights Movement and  in the U.S. for her…

Today I stand and march with the women of this country demanding to be heard and counted, who rise in community and collaboration, peacefully calling for freedom, for justice, for…

Snowdrifts skimming ice crust on Christmas Day,my hair caught in the updraft as the sun set,my ribcage caving in the cold because I wantedto see the sun in the last…

As support for the peaceful Water Protectors at Cannon Ball, North Dakota continues to grow, and more people become aware of this critical standoff between the protectors and the continued…

Half-light, moonlight, the settle-down light of dusk,the first lavender rush of dawn that reminds meof the skin at the corners of your velvet mouth,storm light, sunlight through the stained glass…

BLOODTALK You and I, we meet in words.It is the language that bridges us. You say pleased, I say pleasure.Our hands shake. You say velvet.  I breathe deeply.I say cobalt. …