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30 and my hair is short and straightened tonight šŸ’‡ā€ā™€ļø

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some summer film featuring two silly winks

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Today the Cornell 7 case was reopened and the same morning, Trumpā€™s Title IX rollback was made official. Nobody coordinated that and thatā€™s what makes it worse. Some thoughts on Cornell, Title IX, and impunity here.

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Sara Ahmed says that institutions do not fail to hear complaints; they are built to receive them in a way that ensures nothing changes, until the woman who complains becomes the problem to be managed. Kate Manne names this as himpathy, the reflex that grieves for the accused manā€™s future before it can see the woman he harmed. Cornellā€™s handling and Trumpā€™s Title IX rules are the same...

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ā­ļø New blog post! # A Report from Further Down the Road

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We live in an age that treats self-knowledge as a project: journal your way to your true self, optimize, heal, arrive. Women are sold this endlessly, as if the self were a product to be finished. Carol was offering something more honest and, I think, more liberating, that the self is not a thing you eventually figure out but a thing you enact, choice by choice, without ever getting the full picture.

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Ecclesiastes is the one book in the Bible that tries the self-knowledge project all the way to the end, applies the whole of a lifeā€™s...

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šŸŒ… Brooklyn @ 6:55pm

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šŸŒ¬ļø šŸ—½ šŸ¦ā€ā¬› Loved the (spooky!) sunrise Edgar Allan Poe reading at the Gowanus Canal this morning

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Thrilled to announce a little early that I have been accepted into the artist residency at Woodward Residency. Excited to be part of their Fall ā€˜26 cohort, very thankful to the selection committee. Official announcement coming soon. āœØ

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šŸŒ¬ļøThe generous folks at the Poetry Society of America photographed this yearā€™s Storefront Prize poems in front of their headquarters. Iā€™m so grateful mine is one of them, and congratulations to my fellow winners! Check out their post from today here.

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Okayā€¦ Addition and PSA on my last post I had no idea there was a whole list of events on the BK Book Festival website so thereā€™s thatā€¦ I have been corrected. Even more options! Of course I want to see Edgar Allan Poe read aloud on a canoe in the Gowanus canal at sunrise.

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šŸ—½ šŸŒ¬ļø

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Big week in NYC for poets and literary heads. Brooklyn Book Festival is on, and I truly want to be in many places at once. A friend says it feels like AWP but in New York! A few readings Iā€™m excited about (Em Dash has a good full list):

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Tonight (Mon): My friends at DGN, Branded Saloon, 7pm. I might be...

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šŸ“œ I fear that between now and the EOY my account(s) are going to take a turn and just become a Shakespeare fan account.

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To make this overload more palpable for my small list of followers (thank u) I am going to review his works along the way in a low stakes way (unless I feel compelled to write a blog about itā€¦ which is highly likelyā€¦)

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OKAY. Finished reading: Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare šŸ“š

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4/5 ā˜…ā˜…ā˜…ā˜…

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This was Shakespeareā€™s best selling work during his lifetime because of how erotic and sensual it was. People of the day considered it risquĆ© and moralists were outraged (but probably bought it...

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ā­ļø New blog post, I wrote a probably too-long review on my reading of The Dry Season. Read ā†’ here

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Kierkegaard, in Works of Love, argues that erotic love and friendship are forms of preference, and preference is self-love wearing another personā€™s face, it says, I love you because of what you are to me. But the command you shall love cuts underneath that. It makes love a duty, and his imaginative claim is that only as duty does love become free, because it no longer depends on whether the beloved keeps deserving it or whether the tension keeps humming. Febosā€™s year is a year of discovering that...

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City Relief in Tompkins Square Park šŸ’™

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ā­ļø šŸŒ¬ļø New blog post # Lineage & The Royal I

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When I was involved in church ministry, another lifetime ago, one of my favorite parts was thinking about lineage and schools of thought. How the church had changed and, when I was feeling imaginative, where it could goā€¦MacIntyre says a living tradition is an argument extended over time about what the practice is for.

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What I love about poetry is that it is born from a tradition and still seen, even in contemporary circles, as working with a tradition, even when it is breaking away from one. Some of my closest mentors have the same thread in them. They see...

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šŸŽµ Love this version of Come On Up To The House by Good Shepherd Collective. I wish I wrote it ā€“ it reminds me of Jean Valentineā€™s poem (and prayer imo) Door in the Mountain

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ā­ļø Iā€™ve been working out some bible breakdowns on my own thoughts around difficult scriptures. I hope you read with generosity as I am still working out these things but I hope you find freedom or comfort in it regardless of your spirtual background, beliefs and so on.

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Read The Ledger Life & Mercy ā‡° here

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Be patient with me and I will pay back everything.

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This is the voice of a man who cannot yet imagine any relation to another that is not a schedule of repayment. I am teary even writing this. Instead, he asks for a longer term payment plan. He is given, instead of a payment plan, the cancellation of...

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Itā€™s Sunday!

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& Iā€™ve been rediscovering Kingā€™s Kaleidoscope again šŸ‘‘ šŸ•Šļø

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šŸŽµ Backwards
\nšŸŽµ Same Blood
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Thank you to all who replied to my poetry prompts with poems, it warmed my heart! I think I responded to all of them with a poem, but if I didnā€™t please email me again!

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There is no way Iā€™m going to keep up with prompts this month sadly, my Fall schedule has filled up in a wonderful and enormous way, but...

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Deeply enjoying Proverbs again

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Proverbs 4:23

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Above all else, guard your heart, / for everything you do flows from it.

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šŸŒ¬ļø Some favorite quotes from ValĆ©ryā€™s, Poetry and Abstract Thought:

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A poetā€™s functionā€”do not be startled by this remarkā€”is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.

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The poem, on the other hand, does not die for having lived: it is expressly designed to be born again from its ashes and to become endlessly what it has just been. Poetry can be recognized by this property, that it tends to get itself reproduced in its own form: it stimulates us to reconstruct it identically.

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ā€œThought is, in short, the activity which causes what does not exist...

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šŸŒ¬ļø šŸ•Šļø Sharing a poem today that was immensely popular days after the 9/11 attacks and published in The New Yorker.

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Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski

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Praise the mutilated world / and the gray feather a thrush lost, / and the gentle light that strays and vanishes / and returns.

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šŸŽµ Happy Friday! I waited all week to eat a cinnamon bun (treat!) from a neighborhood coffee shop that just opened near me.

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Here are some tunes I am stuck on this week ft pic of cinnamon bun & a very delicious cold brew

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crank 2 - new slayyyter!

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Little Lover So Polite - Silversun Pickups

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My Blue Tears -...

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šŸŒ¬ļø Just discovered the term Catachresis yesterday and I am so glad there is a word for one of my favorite literary devices. It is when someone uses a metaphor but stretches it out so itā€™s wrong on actual level, but in itā€™s wrongness it is right. Itā€™s a very extreme metaphor that is working in both directions!!

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EX:\nDeafening silence\nWe know this is impossible, but what the deafening modifier does is adds a new layer on the type of silence. Only language can do this. šŸ™ƒ
\nShakespeare uses this so often: ā€œTis deepest winter in Lord Timonā€™s purseā€ (a season being shoved in a purse jumps over the use of a...

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šŸŒ¬ļø Excited to discuss Shakespeareā€™s Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds today in class.

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Loveā€™s not timeā€™s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks / Within his bending sickleā€™s compass come. / Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom: / If this be error and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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Shakespeare uses negation all throughout this sonnet! So lovely and so clarifying.

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ā­ļø šŸŒ¬ļø #Ground It First, after Jorie Graham, poetry prompt #6

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