My grandfather encouraged this—so much that I’m sometimes not sure if poems I know by heart are from his encouragement or from school. I wrote it off growing up, but I find it so comforting to revisit favorite poems now & highly recommend committing one you love to memory

Honestly the most useful takeaway from my k-8 “dress code” and subsequent uniform

NY friends! Anyone interested in seeing Pam Tanowitz at Bard tomorrow evening (or just need a ride)? I have an extra ticket and am driving from BK in the afternoon, coming back after. DM me!

Let the countdown begin…

Mom’s #SpellingBee addiction is what’s really #haunted! #1 The New York Times puzzles fan

This salad is my personality

Literally no words for my passion for Fever, 1793 (about the Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic), undeniably Laurie Halse Anderson’s best work (which I probably read over 100 times)

Did I….start a trend?

Really going to miss watching these boys play ♥️

Louise Glück, from The Wild Iris, hitting different today 🔥

The Director of the UN's New York office just resigned after thirty years at the organisation over the UN's handling of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. The entirety of his resignation letter is a necessary read but this first page blew me away.

(forgive us—forgive us, forgive us, forgive us)

Hi, I’m a librarian. Here’s why this is really, really bad.

when i ask “how are you” that’s actually shorthand for “how are you still waking up every day and going about your daily life when it feels like society is disintegrating like a nature valley bar”

“I am not pristine, I am not good, / I am in no way Jesus, I am in no way even the bad Mary / let alone the good” — Diane Seuss, “[I aborted two daughters, how do I know they were girls],” from frank: sonnets

Culturally queer (not practicing), lapsed, spiritual-but-not-religious queer, the queer moderate….