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Save the date for a book release!
Wow, I can’t even say how many times over the past decade I dreamed I would be able to announce this: At long last, White Lung will be released by Saturnalia Books on October 15, 2021! I’d love to have you join me to celebrate with a party and reading…
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Write and read with me this summer!
I have a few exciting announcements! First, I’ll be teaching a seminar called Poetry and White Supremacy: Fighting Racism in Your Lyric Poems at Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s Lit Fest on Saturday, June 12, 2021. Check out and register for my class here. And I’ll be reading “at” Lighthouse on Saturday,…
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Dog Park, January 20, 2021
Oh fellow Americans at the dog park,we are united in our love of dogs and our lack of fenced backyards,and so we come together on this evening in the 13th month of 2020 under the lightof a single street lamp and a half moon rising to let our happy animals…
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Threshold
Meaning the point at which the dam breaks, the valley flashes silver. You wake to a cottonmouth snake on your pillow. The tail side of truth is beauty is that lies are a borderless blue meadow. In my dreams I am somewhere I can’t find my way out of.
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Now What
I was pleased and honored to be invited to write a poem around the theme “Beyond the Voting Booth” for Anythink Libraries Civic Saturday. Writing a poem on this topic was beyond difficult; no one likes a preachy poet. In the end, I kept coming back to Walt Whitman’s Leaves…
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On Louise Glück
Reading the news that Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize this morning was the first time in a long, long time that reading the news made me smile. I wish I had time to write a winding, beautiful tribute to her; she is one of my very favorite poets. But…
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(13) on Juneteenth
If, like me, you didn’t grow up knowing about Juneteenth, think about why that might have been. Then check out: today’s Google Doodle and the story behind it. an astounding poem by Patricia Smith (about halfway down the page) (pay attention to the bolded words) Priscilla Jane Thompson’s “Emancipation“ student…
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Then they said I was too
For today: June Jordan’s “A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades.“
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one vote per eligible voter/ was all stacy abrams needed
Check out “women’s voting rights at 100 (but who’s counting?)” by Evie Shockley.
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Eve Ewing’s 1919
If you buy one book of poetry this summer, maybe this one should be it. Check out some poems from the book here.
Kimberly O'Connor 