machine of being in the moment

Tori Grant Welhouse Tori Grant Welhouse

reading brute

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I just devoured Brute, a poetry collection by Emily Skaja, 2018 Walt Whitman award winner, chosen by Joy Harjo for its “elegiac howl to the end of a relationship.” Truly, lines like paper cuts.

In my history, I was bones eating paper
or I was paper eating bones. Semantics.

First line. First poem. ** Highly recommend. **

More info from Greywolf Press here.

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instagram poem: lilacs

These grow like a miracle, hardy transplants from lost gardens.

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the place where you are

The place where you are is here, and you must treat it like a powerful stranger.
— David Wagner
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this is a thing: poetry desk

My daughter left an old, nondescript desk in her room. In making the room over as a spare bedroom/photography studio, I decided to transform her desk into a “poetry desk.”

Many thanks to Rachel Scray for helping me turn it into a realty.

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