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My allergies are going crazy but I’m quite happy to see more and more trees full.

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The Georgia woods 🌳

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Excited to share that I’ve been selected for a Summer Fellowship with the Poetry Society of America! Learn more in their Instagram post and on the Poetry Society’s website.

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Finally tried Lucali in Carroll Gardens — delicious and the ambiance was perfect.

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Just pre-ordered Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription, that comes out next week. I haven’t been this excited for a book in so long. Going to drop just about everything else I am reading.

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Day 2 of National Poetry Month. “A Meadow” by Lucie Brock-Broido:

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If there is a god, he is not done

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I just discovered Eternal Family Streaming which is a “curated, artist-run streaming service specializing in obscure, surreal, and lost media, including vintage animation, niche horror, and indie art films” or “a liminal fever dream that is ad-free”. I can not wait to deep dive into this catalog.

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April is Poetry Month, someone out there decided this. I am trying to write a poem a day, even while wrestling with what I am assuming is the flu. In the meantime, here is a poem from Dean Young.

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But we can do no more than pass through
\nthese rooms and their sudden chills
\nwhere once a plea was entered almost
\nunintentionally that seemed at last
\nto reveal ourselves to ourselves,
\nimmaculate, bereft, deserving to be found.

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“The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.”

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🌬️ “But I love the daises’ dance” 🌼

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Emily Dickinson’s handwriting “with the sincere spite of a woman.”

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Love these medieval suns and moons. I like the sun riding what appears to be the moving clouds

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I was in an MFA class with Woody Brown at Columbia and I was a better thinker and writer for it, excited to see his book published. I will definitely be picking up a copy. You can read about his journey and book here.

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Crafts & Arts at Happy Medium Cafe in Brooklyn

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Lovely poem from Poetry in Motion series, brought to you by the Poetry Society of America and New York’s MTA.

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”the silent comedy of beauty— of waiting”

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Finished reading: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 📚

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🌬️ “I did a road trip all over my mind and heart and there you were kneeling by the roadside with your little toolkit fixing something.”

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🌬️”Who would I show it to”

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🌬️ “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”

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Only non-profit cat cafe in the five boroughs! Cat Cafe in Brooklyn Heights — trying my very best not to take them home…

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Brilliant article from The Paris Review,\nKafka’s Misdiagnosis by Aaron Schuster:

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”One of the lessons of Kafkian neurosis is that human beings are the astoundingly resourceful architects of their own cages”

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Gorgeous evening jazz at Saturn Road in Brooklyn

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Finished reading: My Work by Olga Ravn 📚

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🌬️ \" Grief is wearing a dead person’s dress forever.\"

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“Do not write a poetry of rarity, or of rarification, but of never again.” - Kevin Young 🌬️

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