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Existing in the middle

Better breakfast for better living. Spelling is a spell. And a poem about the part where the magic happens.

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A new year

Here, a good grounding exercise for a new year on earth. Let me read you a poem by Lucille Clifton.

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What returns love

I had a brief, bright infatuation with a feral squash, meanwhile the world keeps spinning. Here's a poem by Louise Glück.

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Vining toward repair

I was sick. The friendship economy always wins. I published some poems.

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This place could be beautiful

I get sentimental after midnight. Also a poem you know and love.

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In the middle of everything

We're going back to the desert not a minute too soon. I struggle with patience. I have many books. And a poem—a sonnet!—by Diane Seuss.

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We sang songs

On feeling a way through the day, one line at a time, when everything is hard and also on fire. Plus two poems by Naomi Shihab Nye and Aracelis Girmay.

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Better questions

Good questions, the lessons, a check-in for spring, and three new piping hot poems.

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Your heart is an accordion

Looking back with gratitude at the last month, an absurd new intention, and a poem by Mahogany L. Browne.

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My apologies to everything

One poem reminded me of another poem and now this is where we are. Forgive me.

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If I write a love poem

In praise of the liberatory imagination and a poem by Miguel James.

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We live instead

Here's a new fun game called more or less, to keep our heads and hearts strong. Let me read you two poems, two very good poems.