last night’s Night Light reading was a tremendous joy!! I literally had to remind myself I had a body at multiple points during the reading — check out the recording of Buck Downs, Kate Pyontek, @ctsalazar.bsky.socialyoutu.be/FqHVLcJSec4
I was in Mississippi as a visiting writer of a university to speak on my novel which was where I met my homie the poet @ctsalazar.bsky.social, & the post office of the town had a framed portrait of a Klansman on its wall. So never lie in southerners faces if their terror becomes sudden news to you.
Mississippi poets! I’m designing a poetry workshop for us! Sign-up / registration info coming very soon ✨
I facilitate a weekly poetry circle with a really lovely retirement community. Here’s 3 pages of some prompts from my planning journal free to a good home (poets and educators)
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OF POETRY PODCAST, EP 55
Your book does something that I want more poets to do, which is to write a book-this such a poet statement, so I can be reviled for this--but to write a book so heavy that it becomes light... [Invitatory] has weight, but you approach it in such a way that it is also approachable for your reader.
Molly
...it makes me think of Calvino who said: not light like a feather, light like a bird. The way I think about that, I guess, is that the bird is a body, right?
There's muscle, there's tendon, there's bone.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:5mexnbfjn7yqdsnr76bggh5m/bafkreifnszynjkbuuvfxjjxcxagtgdezeu4ldfmaj4bz2nq7dlo5perouy@jpeg)
Happy 93rd birthday to the revolutionary theorist Frantz Fanon. His WRETCHED OF THE EARTH is mandatory reading for you. If you've not read this yet, get that on your agenda for soon, or you can't come with us in the struggle. @shengokai.bsky.social
