• Hermann Hesse •

perfect Friday the 13th post ~ 👻

Turners Falls Unnameable Books hosts authors OCT 6 #WritingCommmunity

"It’s not wise to think of life as a lost and found," part of 'the geography of tallying,' pub'd in Meat For Tea Valley Review, Vol 18 issue 3, Looseleaf, fall 2024 Check out this hard- working western Mass. publication ♡ the cover. #writinglife #poetry

a reminder~

the Tell It Slant Festival coming next week is a western Ma treasure ~looking fwd to a week of #poetry ♡

Dear Sandra, thank you for something to smile about (in a world filled with war, violence and injustice). . I am fond of parens:)

This Marianne Worthington #poem is worth taking a moment to read... 🩵 #poetry

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books

I see a face and arms breaking a fall... use #clouds as a writing #prompt

"I drifted into my profession as a fly lands on fly paper.." ---Wallace Stegner [ ♡ reading The Spectator Bird ]

Louise Glück, from October

With a piece of my heart still in Portland, OR - let me recommend this for tonight's agenda ♡ #writerscommunity #poetry #pdx

the sun is out after much rain and this is what it feels like... . #WritingPrompts

Robert Creeley

I sent this to myself so I could read it again... especially the sidebars/observations, e.g., "..taped on his back porch, near a defunct old well, and away from any tidying influence..." 🧡 the interviewed & interviewer ♡

The two souls within – Hermann Hesse on the dual life of the creative spirit themarginalian.org/2024/01/07/her…

How frail the human heart must be...(♡) themarginalian.org/2015/07/03/syl…

♡ Jorie Graham... (+ the Paris Review) theparisreview.org/interviews/263…

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