Eberhardt’s songs kill me. I want to learn how to write like that.

Today's Poetry Thread: PROTEST "What's the sense / Of being an adult and having no voice?" Feel free to add poems.

I can’t wait!

“In the meantime, the names of the dead kept thudding against the window. In their notebooks, my students scribbled words no one could hear.” Stunning essay, as Steve’s essays always are.

Great lineup!

This is a gorgeous poem!

I love dogs. So much.

Wait for it. It’s awesome.

Learn songwriting w American folk singer-songwriter Cliff Eberhardt! Online class Monday, August 14th, 6 to 8 pm CENTRAL time. Sign up! You know you want to! Follow the link larksongwritersplace.org/Classes/Online… #songwriting #music #folksinger #musicians #poets

This outrage should absolutely be a national story and a cause for journalistic solidarity. Shame these people … Police stage 'chilling' raid on Kansas newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/pol…

This story about police in a small Kansas town raiding the local newspaper and seizing items in a way that seems illegal is chilling and cannot be tolerated. Time to spread this story far and wide and pressure local officials to explain themselves. loom.ly/TJiW3fQ

This made me ugly cry. Our dogs…

I am here. Those three words contain all that can be said— you begin with those words and you return to them. - Czeslaw Milosz, VISIONS FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY 🖤

This is still the best business advice I've ever received: Think like a farmer

The pain on this woman’s face. Heartbreaking. Politics are personal. Very very personal.

This is for Maui, from a far away friend. I am so terribly sorry.

“I promise we are made of those who save us”

“It was a time of deep suppression and it was a time of high poetry. We were bereft and the world was beautiful.”

The day we made the impossible possible.