Reading Franz Wright

Hi friends! Happy Wednesday. I know I haven’t written a post like this for a while, but I wanted to share some poems with you today! In the past couple of weeks, I haven’t been reading the most poetry, and I’ve been missing it, so I dove back in this...

Reading Louise Glück: 4 Days until Halloween

Happy Sunday, friends! I hope you’re having a relaxing weekend. Today, we’re going trick-or-treating in a neighborhood nearby with friends, and we’re also planning to go to Chicago’s Botanical Gardens to see their annual 1000 glowing...

Reading Rae Armantrout: 5 Days until Halloween

Apple cider, fall leaves & crisp air, jack-o-lanterns a’glow—These are a few of my favorite, spookiest things… Happy Saturday, friends! If you’ve been here for a while, you know how much I love Halloween. And I also love countdowns....

A Night of Building a Manuscript & Reading Poetry

Happy Tuesday night, all! I hope you had a wonderful weekend—and a relaxing Labor Day. My Labor Day weekend revolved (mostly) around lovely “guilty pleasures,” ranging from binge-watching Season 3 of The Good Place, starting my latest re-read of...

In Honor of Linda Gregg: One Poem (For Now)

The last few times we’ve lost a poet, I’ve had the privilege of knowing them, or at least loving their work. Today, with the loss of Linda Gregg, I walked into the unfamiliar place of not knowing a poet by name, or not being able to associate them with at...