
We’re going to right the world and live.
–Sandra Cisneros
Poet, writer, editor, teacher, blogger, mentor, meditator.
We’re going to right the world and live.
–Sandra Cisneros
During the Black Lives Matter protests immediately after the killing of George Floyd, I was posting much, much less on social media than I’m used to. Normally, I post at least once […]
I’ve been reorganizing my poetry bookshelves, as one does during a pandemic, slowly sorting through books I’ve collected over the past thirty years. Most I sort by last name, slotting Barbara Ras […]
You say you love the world, so love the world.
– Ada Limon
For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
– N.K. Jemisin
What should I be but just what I am?
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.
– Jane Hirshfield
There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.
– Joy Harjo
…if I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth.
– Beryl Markham
In a time of destruction, create something.
– Maxine Hong Kingston