DMZ Colony changed my life and poetry & I cannot wait for Don Mee Choi's Mirror Nation that "completes the trilogy" with Hardly War & DMZ Colony wavepoetry.com/products/mirro…

Strange time to get the words “I am attired in wonder” tattooed on your forearm, I’ll admit. Then again, the need to find and hold on to what little wonder there is feels more important now than it ever has.

'Old self that once was dot, was free-range cells. What whispered magic spun me from your coiled chains, made blue veins and solid thump of heart? Plump meat, bone, breath sewn through with darts of thought? How came I into this? And how to reconcile return?' -Alison Flett

Q: Did you routinely write many drafts? David Milch: I have a shaping heart. 🧡 A Lion in Winter: An Interview With David Milch shar.es/agoxOo

'Regardless of our political allegiances, let us put #transgender young people front and centre in this consultation phase and *ask them* how we can best create safe and inclusive schools in which they can thrive both academically and personally.' –Professor Catherine Lee MBE The Conversation

Just over two weeks left to submit to Cordite Publishing Inc.'s Cordite 112: TREAT, for which I'm guest editor. Your poem/s can link to any meaning of TREAT – and there are many! (Click through for more about that in the call-out.) Submissions close on 4 February 2024. Send us your stuff!

from Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan University Press, 2003) by Peter Gizzi

Hands down one of the most potent poems I've ever read – & I'm not saying that just because this brilliant poet is my wife😉 I've kept it taped on my wall for months as writing inspiration. What Tricia Dearborn can do in a line or two is nothing short of amazing⬇️ #WorldPoetryDay

Three times a day the machines grind to silence. While others seek coffee, sustenance, chat, I chain smoke in the toilet. Next year I’ll implode. | Excerpt - '[50] Tin' by Tricia Dearborn from Autobiochemistry (2019) | uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/autob… sciencewritenow.com/read/lyric-poe…

I love, love, love Tricia Dearborn's poem 'Tin'. You can click through the links to read the entire poem and also to buy her marvellous book #Autobiochemistry with UWA Publishing. #PeriodicTable #poetrytwitter

'Why should we care about multilingualism, gender, and sexuality?' Eds. @queertwit & Holly Cashman Special Issue on Queering Multilingualism 🗨️🌎🌍🌏tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My Guardian article summarises a few key things I learned when helping my dad, who had #dementia. For more on that rollercoaster of a year, check out my #memoir The Year My Family Unravelled (Affirm Press). "A compelling memoir about family" – Who magazine amzn.to/3X90mHl

'Beauty, truth, god, the soul, duende, poetry—all exist without a purpose beyond themselves. They are not products. They are not “content.” A sublime uselessness.' – Diane Seuss ❤️

The one and only Ferron on songwriting: "That's my job, to go right to the edge and look down the vast purposelessness of everything and make it become something." cbc.ca/music/read/a-c…

Lucky to spend another birthday with the faaaabulous Tricia Dearborn ... whose desire for books and chocolates and fun (and public health) knows no bounds 🎂 ❤️🎉👩‍❤️‍👩 😷

A recent 5-star review of my #memoir: "Absolutely masterful writing style ... I was unable to put this book down. If the scale went to 6 stars, that's how I'd rate it ... Unflinchingly honest ... many moments of dry humour ... poignant, heart-wrenching." goodreads.com/book/show/1363…

I have family and friends in the path of the hurricanes. This video shows what happened to one house in North Carolina. "Help Cheryl & Anne Rebuild & Recover After Hurricane Helene" gofund.me/4a164b2c

Why I'm not cynical – "There's this tendency in the far right to encourage us all to give up on human connection and entirely be self-serving and cynical about the notion of connection." –Tilda Swinton Interview from NYT Podcast ~47:00 youtu.be/4jURdx2pR70?si… via YouTube