Category: poetry
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// empty mirror & in bed
In keeping with the season of good news, I’m excited to share two more recent publications: four excerpts from California Building up today in Empty Mirror, and a standalone prose poem up this week in Queen Mob’s Teahouse for its “In Bed With…” series. I’m grateful to the editors for giving a home to my…
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// a season of good news
Portland, Oregon, offers the most dazzling spring of any I’ve experienced. It’s particularly welcome after the coldest February on record in the metro area this year, and it comes with good publishing news, too. In my last post, I shared that the full-length poetry manuscript I’ve been working on the last few years, California Building, was…
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// progress vs. despair
As the year draws to a close, I’m struck by the marked—and somewhat encouraging—disconnect between top-down and grassroots forces at play in the U.S. right now. The government has been an utter disappointment in so many ways, from directly undermining economic, racial, and gender equity to making us the only country in the world…
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// reading & records
I’m reading on Friday 6/3 in San Francisco, and 20 Minute Loop is putting out a new LP.
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// north! & a reading
In a month we will pack everything we own into a big yellow truck and drive north. North! I think of lone shaggy-haired boys hitchhiking to Alaska. The arrow drawn on landscape designs. Lucie Brock-Broido: “bold as a compass// Needle pointing—North…// Your letters to me long since/ Lost, I’ve been loving you so long.”…
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// queen mob’s teahouse
Today on Queen Mob’s Teahouse, a conversation with Russell Bennetts about aggressive earnestness and, well, you be the judge. And no, those aren’t our real bodies. Also, in case you missed it, Bennetts was behind another recent project: Jeff Bezos wrote a poetry ebook, and I helped. …
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// today in phenome
Today Poor Claudia’s Phenome published four excerpts from my new manuscript, other sections of which have appeared in Berfrois and sparkle + blink—and are forthcoming in There. The first line—We wanted to believe there was another way to nourish ourselves—comes from Frances Moore Lappé’s introduction to Masanobu Fukuoka’s natural farming meditation The One-Straw Revolution. I…
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// people’s climate march & the green arcade
Food Sovereignty & Climate Justice In anticipation of the People’s Climate March in New York City on 9/21, I wrote a piece with Eric Holt-Giménez for HuffPo on the intersections between food and climate movements. If you’re a West Coaster interested in participating in actions around the UN Climate Summit, there will also be a…
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// spring in berfrois
When I started teaching community college, my mentor teacher said, “You don’t know what seeds you are planting, or when they will grow, or how they will grow.” I left teaching for the finca, where I planted squash, peanuts, sunflowers, carrots, lettuce; transplanted sesame and cacao; and harvested bananas and citrus that someone…
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// quiet lightning 3/7
If you didn’t make it to AWP, or you did but didn’t get enough literary chaos, or you got enough & are ready for more, check out Quiet Lightning this Friday, a literary mixtape curated by Evan Karp & Sarah Ciston. I’ll be closing out the night with a poem from my new project,…
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 