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Kathryn Cowles
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Poet, Artist, Maps and Transcripts (Milkweed), Eleanor, Eleanor (Bear Star), “Beyond Category” co-editor @SenecaReview, HWS Prof
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I keep getting numb, feeling like I’m cycling through flash cards for the apocalypse. Poetry so often the antidote.

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Teaching Robert Hass’s “Meditation at Lagunitas” this week (in the midst of some terrible evidence in my family of how fragile life is) feels like an action in support of aliveness. So here’s to aliveness.

The green green cover Robert Hass’s book PRAISE, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, with a little engraving of blackberries filling a small portion of the larger plane of solid green. Bright green leaves in the background.
Bluesky won’t let me put in the whole text here, alas, but you can find this astonishing poem here https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47553/meditation-at-lagunitas
Or by searching the poetry foundation for Meditation at Lagunitas.
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"so strange, like old truths echoing in prayers." Wislawa Szymborska (sometime in the 1940ies); the opening poem in Map (Collected and Last Poems) Feeling this acutely these days. #paradigmShift#poetry

Once we had the world backwards and forwards:
--it was so small it fit in two clasped hands,
so simple that a smile did to describe it,
so common, like old truths echoing in prayers.

History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares:
--it flung dirty sand into our eyes.
Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere,
poisoned wells and bitter bread.

Our wartime loot is knowledge of the world,
--it is so large it fits in two clasped hands,
so hard that a smile does to describe it,
so strange, like old truths echoing in prayers.
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What your post failed to consider is me, a complete stranger with bad opinions

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It's World Poetry Day! Register for my Zoom-based Contemporary World Poetry thru The Downtown Writers Center. It's inexpensive, open to anyone anywhere & you do not need to be a member of the YMCA! Register by calling Tim Carter, Arts Branch Director, at (315) 474.6851, ext. 380

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Yes: “A new problem appears. It looks the same as the first problem and then you spot differences which once you find them all make the problem go away. A new problem appears identical to the original.”

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“The order gives individuals a year’s supply of three types of birth control: pills, vaginal rings and patches. It also applies to people who travel to New York from other states.”

Birth control now available in New York without prescription
Birth control now available in New York without prescription

A law signed last year has finally cleared the necessary regulatory review.

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This convo was so fun I was willing to put up with the sound of my own voice to listen to it. We make a pretty good team, me and Han. Y'all check out our books if you haven't, and send us your manuscript in June.

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Thank you to the Anchorage Daily News for singling out my lyric essay "Have You Ever Given Your Sister a Snowman" in their review of the new Alaska Quarterly Review!

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“Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.” – Marina Tsvetaeva #writer

Photo of the poet Marina Tsvetaeva
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Kathryn Cowles
@kathryncowles.bsky.social
Poet, Artist, Maps and Transcripts (Milkweed), Eleanor, Eleanor (Bear Star), “Beyond Category” co-editor @SenecaReview, HWS Prof
164 followers172 following21 posts