Month: December 2014
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You Are Not Alone (Even If You Are Spending Christmas Alone With Your Cats)
I’ve seen so many posts this morning and this week and on so many different social media sites — Facebook and Instagram and Tumblr and even Yik Yak, for God’s sake — about people spending Christmas alone with their cats and feeling very, very, terribly lonely, and it made me feel — well, awful. Because […]
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Because of the House We Have Built for Our Language
I’m struggling in the land of constantly-dropping Internets, which is really difficult because there are so many pictures of cats on the Internets right now, and so many of those photographs involve cats in Christmas trees and engaged in epic battles with Christmas ornaments and I can’t even write about this anymore because I’ll weep. […]
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Keeping Things Whole
I first fell in love with Mark Strand’s work in eighth grade, when our teacher assigned The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry and I devoured every single page. Mark Strand’s work made me stop and sit and think for a spell, and that spell never ended. The pages that carry his words have been […]
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Advent Calendar Activism
This morning marked the beginning of the Delirious Hem Advent Calendar, co-curated by the incredible Jessica Smith and the incredible Susana Gardner, who are as magical as a duo of poetry-powered pegasi (pegasuses? I’m going with pegasi). This year, the poems are in response to a call for poems about the rape culture so terrifyingly […]
Emma Bolden 