Why write?

Men are terrified of women getting ahead. They are particularly scared that women will find out that "work" isn't the big thing they have been making it out to be to belittle the backbreaking household labor women do and that men are the actual freeloaders.

I love soulmates but also this...

Another new book alert BLUES IN STEREO gave me a chance to live close to Langston Hughes’s young mind and see his genius up close. I hope it brings joy to old and new readers of one of our finest poets, one who love his Blackness and the Black people of the world so much 💙💙

Marie Ponsot

Another one I share every time I see it.

Donika Kelly 💔

every ‘irritate kar rahi hun?’ piku deserves a ‘meri tolerance bahut achi hai’ rana

I romp with joy in the bookish dark. —Mark Strand

Kyla Jamieson:

Read, take long walks, memorize poetry, listen to the wind, and cherish those who love you.

Maybe poems are just complications & yet you can't resist a little still life lit with grief & wonder. Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

Real misandry is when we start to see women killing men at alarming rates. Real misandry is when we start to see women aborting fetuses or abandoning babies because they're male. Real misandry is when we start to see women controlling men's bodies.

“Poetic imagination or intuition is never merely unto itself, free-floating, or self-enclosed. It’s radical, meaning root-tangled in the grit of human arrangements and relationships: how we are with each other.” Adrienne Rich, “Permeable Membrane,” A Human Eye

“A poem is not about; it is out of and to.” Adrienne Rich, “Permeable Membrane,” A Human Eye

Maureen Owen

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Did I age well? 26 vs 44 I am healthier and stronger than my 26 yo self because I started prioritizing myself at 40. Good genes too. I love every version of me though. You have to look back at yourself with kindness no matter how you age.