Poems, like most great art, are the art of telling the truth of life just as we live it. I learned this in the work of Joy Harjo, Mary...

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"It’s super-exciting to not care if you’re liked.... It’s fun defying expectations about me.” ~Amy Poehler Freedom to draw boundaries...

A mother's hands are neatly folded She speaks, and her voice is neat as well. "When you have a dismemberment," she says. And her voice is...

Evaluate my bones when I'm gone When my skin and hair, my blood and tongue are long turned to dust My bones are frank and simple Earnest...

(my Instagram) That's Esquire, which I don't think of as breathless or overwrought when it comes to book reviews, praising Bryan...