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🌬️ Excited to discuss Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds today in class.

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Love’s not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks / Within his bending sickle’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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⭐️ 🌬️ #Ground It First, after Jorie Graham, poetry prompt #6

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⭐️ No prompt today. Instead I wrote a blog post after finishing Femininity and Domination by the brilliant feminist philosopher Sandra Bartky.

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#Translated Reciprocity

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Read the full piece → here

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Bartky traces how affective care in heterosexual intimacy, including and pointedly the care owed after sex, typically flows toward men without returning, and how any inch of return gets treated as license to demand the woman give double. She names a familiar arrangement. Men report wanting a woman who is powerful yet docile, who wants them but not so much that her wanting becomes a claim. The asymmetry governs...

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“Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.“

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🐿️ tiny friend

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⭐️ 🌬️ #Make a Ritual of the Thing You Dread, after CA Conrad, poetry prompt #5

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Poetry is spiritual. It’s where you can communicate to the dead. It’s where you can meet the duende, the angel, and the muse.

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Classes start back up next week, here’s an excerpt from my prep-reading, too good not to share, from The Poet as Fool and Priest by Sigurd Burckhardt:

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”What sustains him in this perilous balance is the love of the Word in its absolute integrity. As Othello demonstrates, that is no easy matter; the most sacred thing is also the most vulnerable. The poet would be much safer if he did not commit himself to the Word, but in ironic detachment exploited the infinite ambiguities of speech. Or he could retreat to the safety of a socio-religious order, give up his claim to verbal priesthood and turn \"...

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⭐️🌬️ #Play Roget Roulette (poetry prompt #4) “the chatterbox sun, the cat burglar in the solar room, one cordless crook”

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“If feminism means anything, it means taking responsibility for ourselves: for our own lives and actions. It is not ‘women as victims’ but women refusing to be victims.” – Gloria Steinem 🪽

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Want to binge all of his stuff now. It’s no wonder he’s received that sweet sweet Pulitzer. Finished reading: The Rest of Love by Carl Phillips 📚

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⭐️🌬️ Keep an Observation Notebook (poetry) prompt #3, on being a butterfly catcher

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As brilliant and as devestating as I expected ❤️‍🩹

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Finished reading: The Going Is Forever: Poems by Elizabeth Metzger 📚

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⭐️🌬️ September Prompt #2

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#Build a Labyrinth like an Oulipian

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Oulipians are “rats who build the labyrinth from which they plan to escape.“The lipogram, then, is one maze among the many Oulipo builds. But the technique is inert on its own. It becomes literature only under the Oulipian wager: that a constraint obeyed without exception stops being an obstacle and becomes a heuristic, yielding locutions the unconstrained ear would never reach. The discipline is not to negotiate the prohibition but to submit to it and let it do the thinking. The prohibition is not the poem’s cage. It’s the poem’s argument.

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⭐️ 🌬️

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Happy September! I love this month & the beginning of Fall. I figured I would do a poetry prompt series throughout the month of September. I’ve been writing a poem a day recently, and it’s because of prompts that have helped me find a (new) place to start rather than the blank page I am a little too fam...

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⭐️ New Blog Post!

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I wrote a disjointed (sorry!) blog post on thoughts I had after watching Coyote vs. Acme (which I loved). No spoilers, mostly about poetry, nonsense, and etc.

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#Coyote vs. Acme, Poetry Using Toon Logic, & Defiance Against Fascism

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Read the piece → here

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Fascism’s claim isn’t just that the future is closed but also the present order is necessary. That the way things simply are is how it should stay. Arendt noted that tyranny of logicality deduces everything from one premise and stops answering to the world. These are ways of saying it could not have been otherwise. Nonsense is the...

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🎵 One of Bob Dylan’s Theme’d Radio Hours where he talks about a theme and pairs songs with that theme. Love this one on Luck.

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Had me thinking about all types of luck, I love writing about luck & thinking about it, it’s one of those words that sounds like what it is:

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Bad luck, good luck, unlucky, tough luck,...

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love mornings in my apartment

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🎵 Midweek Music! Alot of Racing Mount Pleasant (which is sad, sorry! the whole album is so good but so sad)

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You Pt. 2

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Your New Place (ugh and the last song on the album is your old place)

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Racing Mount Pleasant

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Call It Easy

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Other:

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Way Out - stevestevesteve found on NTS thanks flo.

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Stay - The Blue Nile so...

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Like many people, I felt emotional hearing the news about Dolly Parton passing. I was touched to see people post letters they received from her. She really carried such genuine wisdom and kindness. A friend of mine who wrote a book about her (literally) always noted that her humility was the most striking...

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🌬️ What an example of a debut poetry collection! I am going to keep this one in my back pocket to recommend. Finished reading: Slow Lightning (Volume 106) (Yale Series of Younger Poe… by Eduardo C. Corral 📚

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Attached is a poem Want from the collection and a excerpt of Variations on a Theme by José Montoya

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🌬️ Beyond excited to read Elizabeth Metzger’s new poetry book, The Going Is Forever, where she writes very specifically and honestly about the death of her father, a dissolving marriage, and her sons illness. A friend just sent me a sneak peak to share. Can’t wait to get my copy.

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An honest, intricate, and breathtaking distillation of love’s true nature, The Going Is Forever reminds us that our closest relationships contain endless mysteries, and that there is never just one version of a life.

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Can pre-order here

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weekend again and new tattoo 🐎

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come what may

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⭐️ New Blog Post Up! I wrote a long-winded research essay on the temperature of reality TV called:

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#Torture as Content: Reality Television, Netflix & Friends Abuse, and the New Witch Trials

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Read the piece here → (warning: it’s very long and has some descriptions of suicide and violence)

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An industry that measures every minute of viewing has declined to maintain a count of its dead, and the asymmetry of bookkeeping is not an oversight but a finding: the true number is unknown, is unknowable by design, and is larger than any published list.

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The charge is never the act. The trials did not burn women for...

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🎵 Phoebe Bridgers Lost Weekend Album:

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I came to Lost Weekend nervous for what six years of silence might have done to a voice I love. I have followed Phoebe Bridgers since her first album. In her most recent six year hiatus she had some pretty charged spotlight moments: went through a public lawsuit from a...

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