@beingpoetry
Poet, artist, apprentice to light. 3rd poetry collection CORVUS AND CRATER (2023) ED: Storyknife Writers Retreat & Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. BEI Fellow. At the end of the road in Alaska. http://www.beingpoetry.net
Join us for an off-site reading during the #AWP2026 conference! March 6th, from 6-8pm, at the Black Genius Art Show. ➡️ 15 readers will read their work from "Taking Liberties" & "On Freedom" editions of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social
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Always a punch right to the gut.
You want me to care about everything, but I'm so exhausted.
(I understand this is a feature not a bug of the current system.)
This morning, I took a few moments to care about beauty.
This book is a masterclass!
"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
Check out this list of small press books coming out this month—at @clmporg.bsky.social! 📚💙
another guy who never protested before radicalized to the point of tears by watching masked ICE agents terrify children in his neighborhood
the Republicans are not ready or mentally capable of comprehending the backlash they have generated
Behind the door was a wing. Behind the wing
a mountain. Behind the mountain a memory.
Behind the memory the words. Behind
the words was brokenness. And wings.
Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...
In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
Just so you know what they are saying and who they are listening to.
Sometimes you need get up and let the music carry you. youtu.be/gIR3ct774B8?...
Riddle me this: It cost $150 less to travel roundtrip from Anchorage to Seattle than it costs to travel roundtrip from Homer to Anchorage.
#alaska
I always need to remind myself that jealousy is just pointing at what I wish I was doing.
Today, I needed a little shelter. Thank you, Robert Hass. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48851/...
#poetry
I feel like you’ve read my mind. 😂
Of course that democracy was built on stolen land by enslaved people....
Our culture’s inability to believe women has brought our democracy to its knees.
Whether you believe in any of that, now is the time of year to listen for movement welling up from the earth, for it is cleansing sunlight and the warmth surging from deep in the soil that breaks up ice and drives it away. /fin
Brigid, my name saint, who I chose because she had been a bright goddess first, sanctified by the church later. Brigid, patroness of poetry, fire, prophecy, weaving, smithing, midwifery, all things creative. 2/3
The passing. Gifts from the ocean. One stone from the beach for today’s full moon and the Cailleach’s retreat. Three stones gathered above high tide line like drops of sun-drenched honey for Brigid on her day. 1/3
She is so incredible. I can never get enough.
We live the stories that either give our lives meaning, or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives."
Ben Okri
(A Way Of Being Free)
"In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, we are also living the stories we planted -- knowingly or unknowingly -- in ourselves.
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
This is why women of color do not trust us, because we prioritize our own comfort over the . Stay put, be uncomfortable, DO THE WORK.
To my fellow white women, I know that a lot of you feel that what is happening in MN is too much. You are dysregulated. DO NOT CHECK OUT. DO NOT LEAVE SOCIAL MEDIA TO PROTECT YOURSELF.
I know it's only January 23, but the fact that I worked my to-do list down this week from a total of 23 tasks to 3 feels like a miracle. With all the chaos, it's hard to keep pushing everything forward, but so important for the organizations that I help support.
Please send up a little cheer for me
There is so much ugliness in the world that sometimes I need a little break to remember the importance of beauty. youtu.be/CPUSVZf3elM?...
When things don’t change any longer, that’s the end result of entropy, the heat-death of the universe. The more things go on moving, interrelating, conflicting, changing, the less balance there is — and the more life."
from The Lathe of Heaven
Remembering the great Ursula K. Le Guin.