poets transform bowls
Poet, translator, teacher, playwright, librettist, and collaborative artist Valerie Martínez was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from the University of Arizona. Her books of poetry include Absence, Luminescent (1999), World to World (2004), And They Called It Horizon (2010), and the book-length poem, Each …
poets peel off their stubbornness
Mexican American poet Juan Delgado first started coming to the United States with his family when he was a child. He attended California State University, San Bernardino, where he studied accounting before discovering writing and majoring in English. He earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where he …
poets play basketball with words
Elizabeth Acevedo holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion as well as a Cave Canem Fellow, CantoMundo Fellow, and participant of the Callaloo Writer’s Workshop. She is the author …
Let the poemapalooza begin!
April is National Poetry Month. I know, I know. You don’t do poetry. You lost the urge for it when your English teacher made you beat it senseless. Come back to the word that captures a world. Each April I feature a poem every day on 37days. It is my …
Friday Favorites : More writing tools and a grounding tool
Every week on Friday, some things I love. No affiliate links, just things I love because I love them and want to share the love so you might love them too. Lots of love. Love all around, no commerce. It’s not an exaggeration to say that my dream has always …
thinking thursday
Seven questions, every Thursday. If you were chili, what chili would you be? I would definitely be this one. Thanks to my friend Jeff for sending me this essay. What is a life of restless isolation like? Need a new, big, sobering, necessary book to read? Want to meet a new, …
poetry wednesday : state bird
On place, belonging, love. “But, love, I’ll concede this: whatever state you are, I’ll be that state’s bird, the loud, obvious blur of song people point to when they wonder where it is you’ve gone.” State Bird by Ada Limón Confession: I did not want to live here, not among the …
sunday sounds
Gaelynn Lea will be a featured speaker/performer at Life is a Verb Camp 2018, and I couldn’t be happier about that. Ever since she won the NPR Tiny Desk Concert competition in 2016, I’ve wanted to hear her play in person. Listen, and you’ll find out why.
thinking thursday.
Are any of us really surprised by Facebook’s open secret? Could you make this for me, please? And this? What are you moving toward and away from? Here’s another look at it. Are your father’s arms a boat? What is Autism? What can woke America and great America learn from each …
Welcome to Spring
In this hemisphere, today marks the first day of Spring, a hopefulness, a color spark, a transition into heat, that time of year where when it rains, suddenly color appears from the ground like it was the end of the raindrop. Flip flops for the occasion, even if still too …
