“dandelion” comes from the French, “dent de lion.” = lion’s tooth!
(It’s also colloquially called pissenlit because its diuretic properties make you piss the bed.) I have a friend who is so straight edge that he doesn’t get novocaine (Google…
indieSTOPSTOP
A colleague—a really sweet and lovely one, making really nice stuff!—emailed me this morning asking me to promote her IndieGoGo campaign to expand her business. The…
Anne Muller’s letter to the editor re: you-know-whats
Anne gave me permission to post this letter, so I am. Also! Did you guys see in the original post where someone called me part of…
7) Louise Glück
The last night of our week of poetry. I read a lot of Louise Glück in college. I think my advisor was obsessed with her, or something.…
6) Stein
It’s Monday night. I’m eating slightly underripe peaches and drinking whiskey from the bottle while I answer emails in bed. I had a 3.5 hour long…
5) Sexton
It is Sunday morning. I am in bed with little Cleo and the clean bedroom air, reading Anne Sexton. The Big Boots of Pain There can…
4) Rich
4) Rich. This one time, I spent a school year—the best school year, the last one—reading and writing about Adrienne Rich. I stayed in our tiny…
me.
I woke up and I texted M. and told her I was taking a half day off. She wrote back: “Take the whole day off!! Go…
3) Matthew Dickman
Day #3: Matthew Dickman is not only good for writing heartbreakingly wonderful poems about chocolates made by these here typing hands, he is also the one to turn…
2) Haunani-Kay Trask
Seven days of poetry, my ass! I got off track. Let’s get back to it. I first heard of Haunani-Kay Trask because Pohanna, my sweet sister-out-law,…
