Donald Quist is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. He is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri and the executive editor of Past Ten, a collection of short essays by Cornerst

Cavar is a trans poet and activist. In this episode, they talk about the space poetry provides for expressing and explaining ways of being contrapuntal to mainstream thinking.

Cavar is a trans poet and activist. In this episode, they talk about the space poetry provides for expressing and explaining ways of being contrapuntal to mainstream thinking.

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: EMILY SKAJA · Someone gave me 30 lions a year ago & I just remembered they’re upstairs. I’m in a math test, a coffin, a play, I’m literally Hamlet & I di…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: RICK BAROT · In the park we stopped and looked up at the high branch where the ferruginous hawk ate another winged thing, the torn feathers drifting down…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: G.C. WALDREP · According to rule. The terrible safeguard of the text when placed against the granite ledge into which our industry inscribed itself. We w…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: DONIKA KELLY · Of course, the sink is never empty, or rather: empties, briefly, then is full again: the one plate; the one mug; the many spoons. A knife.…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: JASMINE LEDESMA ·  I lost sleep over you    my wide, cigarette-flinging snow angel, falcon princess                                   I laid in bed alre…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: IZZIE HINGSTON · I love your metal clad hearts, I love how you thumped down girlishness like a stack of files on a desk, case closed. I love you butches…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: KATE MAUDE · You can start with the dog carving its claws into the wooden frame, trying to get closer to the danger outside. And then you could go much b…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: EMILY LEITHAUSER · When you arrive in our city, you will see, Prophet, body bags; shoeprints rising from the mud, still; shards of homes; a razed, blac…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: CHARLIE DIVINE STEELE · my mother said you know a pearl is real by tapping it against your teeth. she said I’m sorry, she said you know         there’s t…

In this poignant essay collection, Bailey Gaylin Moore transforms the gaps in her memory from nodes of panic to active spaces of re-creation. Reviewed by Nick Hilbourn

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: ROBERT FERNANDEZ · What hurts when you’re young is that there’s no one. There’s never anyone, is there? All you’re left with  are the embarrassing memori…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: CONSTANT LAVAL WILLIAM · Kenny from Skid Row is my prophet today, my sobriety sponsor and spiritual advisor, his dirty suitcase squeaks like angels, his…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: PAGE HILL STARZINGER · I look up the stars, hard and glittering as if chipped from a giant's horrible, glimmering throne. No moon, not for nights,…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: LAUREN SHAPIRO · in the Jewish cemetery he is looking for a belovèd but all we see are tiny piles of stones atop the graves of others the grass rises and…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: LUCI ARBUS-SCANDIFFIO · When I was a child I was always touching something the crease in the wall the crease in the man’s face a button to the umbrella w…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: LISA ALLEN ORTIZ ·  I already figured out that we imagine the future and then later we exist in the future we imagined. So definitely we are imagi…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: DIA ROTH · I'm reading this Diane Seuss poem about Elvis songs aloud to my love and in the poemone person is like What's your favorite Elvis song? Mine i…

💬 1  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: HENK ROSSOUW · In the barn tonight I listen half-asleep    to the cow named Crassula give a low sound    after giving birth to her nameless veal calf. L…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: LUTHER HUGHES · The bay of rocks before us, massaged by planks, reaches for our hand in marriage. We lie on the ill-blue blanket bought at the peak-end o…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: TYLER RASO · Dismemberment was a language I sought to learn. I google “normal penis” and decide I will be young forever. Every penis in their little imag…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: CHRIS HAVEN · Everybody keeps asking what brings comfort these days and I want to say all the same things but that's not true. Nothing brings comfort…