From Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Joan Jett, Heart, L7, Angela Gossow, Amy Lee, Lzzy Hale, Poppy, Lauren Hart, BAND-MAID, The Warning and Spiritbox: The Strange History of “Female-Fronted Bands,” Touring ...

I’m a Puerto Rican/Filipino poet from Philadelphia and a U.S. Navy veteran who served from 1987 to 1991. Living with a mental health diagnosis, I draw strength from both lived experience and a deep, e

Absurdist Zen. Surreal ritual. Tea as a small rebellion against despair.

Read writing from Ismael S Rodriguez Jr (The Bulletproof Poet) on Medium. Bulletproof Poet. Zenarchy, quiet rebellion, hopepunk futures. Poems, essays, and soft sabotage for a world learning to breath...

Dispatches From a Planet That Probably Should Not Have Wi-Fi

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I’m a Puerto Rican/Filipino poet from Philadelphia and a U.S. Navy veteran who served from 1987 to 1991. Living with a mental health diagnosis, I draw strength from both lived experience and a deep, e

Absurdist Zen. Surreal ritual. Tea as a small rebellion against despair.

Read writing from Ismael S Rodriguez Jr (The Bulletproof Poet) on Medium. Bulletproof Poet. Zenarchy, quiet rebellion, hopepunk futures. Poems, essays, and soft sabotage for a world learning to breath...

Post by Ismael S Rodriguez Jr

Post by Ismael S Rodriguez Jr

I’m a Puerto Rican/Filipino poet from Philadelphia and a U.S. Navy veteran who served from 1987 to 1991. Living with a mental health diagnosis, I draw strength from both lived experience and a deep, e

Absurdist Zen. Surreal ritual. Tea as a small rebellion against despair.

Read writing from Ismael S Rodriguez Jr (The Bulletproof Poet) on Medium. Bulletproof Poet. Zenarchy, quiet rebellion, hopepunk futures. Poems, essays, and soft sabotage for a world learning to breath...

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Part II: Fourteen Thousand Things You Got Wrong

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I’m a Puerto Rican/Filipino poet from Philadelphia and a U.S. Navy veteran who served from 1987 to 1991. Living with a mental health diagnosis, I draw strength from both lived experience and a deep, e

Absurdist Zen. Surreal ritual. Tea as a small rebellion against despair.

Read writing from Ismael S Rodriguez Jr (The Bulletproof Poet) on Medium. Bulletproof Poet. Zenarchy, quiet rebellion, hopepunk futures. Poems, essays, and soft sabotage for a world learning to breath...