okay on the real though, the official team name is ✨golden girls✨ (because oldest olympic team) s/o to cecile🥹🤍

The air is getting saltier and the doors are rusting, so one (1) person will win THREE (3) THINGS (any thing you want!) from Taylor’s US webstore! (Subject to availability) Giveaway is open worldwide & closes August 18th, 8am EST. TO ENTER: 🧂follow me 💨 reply with what you’d

keep submitting your poetry keep submitting your poetry keep submitting your poetry i want to read it

SIGNED OLIVIA RODRIGO GIVEAWAY (open international) -winner gets a SIGNED Olivia item from Mercari of their choice! Rules: -follow me -rt ends in 2 days good luck! This is a huge thing I've been saving up for because i felt bad i hadn't done as many Liv giveaways <3

Roberto Bolaño on why you need poets to rob a bank.

The Awakening Of The Poet, Gabriel Ferrier (1899)

yessss

my grandmothers are the most interesting people I know

don’t forget the Paralympics are on! let’s support & watch these incredible athletes 💙 GO USA!!!!

advice from Grandma Bonnie: don't call it a problem, call it a special occasion

words I've enjoyed lately: marginalia, lilied, redress, aleatory, unpeopled

Writers: we're looking for new Associate Editors of fiction and poetry! AEs help us read submissions & often find the gems that make it into IHLR 💎 This is a volunteer position & we ask for 1 hour of work a week. If you're interested, please send a bio to [email protected]

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing. —Iris Murdoch—

don't forget to greet the moon tonight

my middle schoolers would like to remind everyone "anything can be a real word, so long as you let it have meaning"

Every poet confronts his/her past.

Stay open to joy whenever it comes.

Keep hopelessness at arm's length.