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My new story "Eden" is online at Literary Garage!

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October 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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New interview with poet Ira Goga on Meditative Week of Poetry podcast:
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September 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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"I love surprises", an MWP interview with Jacob Strautmann
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September 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Reposting the Cavar interview because I fixed some audio problems on the first go. If you haven't listened to it yet, I encourage you to do so. Cavar is a fascinating writer doing groundbreaking, thoughtprovoking writing.
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"Trouble What Sense Making Means!, an MWP interview with Cavar by Meditative Week of Poetry
Cavar is a trans poet and activist. In this episode, they talk about the space poetry provides for expressing and explaining ways of being contrapuntal to mainstream thinking.
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September 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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"Trouble what sense making means", an MWP interview with Cavar by Meditative Week of Poetry
Cavar is a trans poet and activist. In this episode, they talk about the space poetry provides for expressing and explaining ways of being contrapuntal to mainstream thinking.
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September 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: VALENCIA ROBIN
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: VALENCIA ROBIN · I confess when I watch the big award shows on TV I still think that could be me up there thanking people, my mother, my grandmother, m…
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August 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: EMILY SKAJA

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: EMILY SKAJA · Someone gave me 30 lions a year ago & I just remembered they’re upstairs. I’m in a math test, a coffin, a play, I’m literally Hamlet & I di…
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August 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: RICK BAROT
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: RICK BAROT · In the park we stopped and looked up at the high branch where the ferruginous hawk ate another winged thing, the torn feathers drifting down…
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August 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Inaugural episode of the Meditative Week of Poetry podcast. This episode featuring poet Todd Davis
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Todd Davis's "For a Stray Dog near the Paper Mill in Tyrone" originally appeared in my blog here:
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"It's impossible as a human to be placeless", MWP interview with Todd Davis
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August 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: G.C. WALDREP
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: G.C. WALDREP · According to rule. The terrible safeguard of the text when placed against the granite ledge into which our industry inscribed itself. We w…
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August 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: DONIKA KELLY
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: DONIKA KELLY · Of course, the sink is never empty, or rather: empties, briefly, then is full again: the one plate; the one mug; the many spoons. A knife.…
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August 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: JASMINE LEDESMA
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: JASMINE LEDESMA ·  I lost sleep over you    my wide, cigarette-flinging snow angel, falcon princess                                   I laid in bed alre…
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August 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: IZZIE HINGSTON
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: IZZIE HINGSTON · I love your metal clad hearts, I love how you thumped down girlishness like a stack of files on a desk, case closed. I love you butches…
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August 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: KATE MAUDE

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: KATE MAUDE · You can start with the dog carving its claws into the wooden frame, trying to get closer to the danger outside. And then you could go much b…
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August 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: EMILY LEITHAUSER

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: EMILY LEITHAUSER · When you arrive in our city, you will see, Prophet, body bags; shoeprints rising from the mud, still; shards of homes; a razed, blac…
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August 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: CHARLIE DIVINE STEELE
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: CHARLIE DIVINE STEELE · my mother said you know a pearl is real by tapping it against your teeth. she said I’m sorry, she said you know         there’s t…
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August 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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My review of #ThankYouForStayingWithMe by @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social is up at @raintaxi.bsky.social

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Thank You for Staying with Me
In this poignant essay collection, Bailey Gaylin Moore transforms the gaps in her memory from nodes of panic to active spaces of re-creation. Reviewed by Nick Hilbourn
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July 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: ROBERT FERNANDEZ
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: ROBERT FERNANDEZ · What hurts when you’re young is that there’s no one. There’s never anyone, is there? All you’re left with  are the embarrassing memori…
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July 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: CONSTANT LAVAL WILLIAM
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: CONSTANT LAVAL WILLIAM · Kenny from Skid Row is my prophet today, my sobriety sponsor and spiritual advisor, his dirty suitcase squeaks like angels, his…
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July 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: PAGE HILL STARZINGER
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: PAGE HILL STARZINGER · I look up the stars, hard and glittering as if chipped from a giant's horrible, glimmering throne. No moon, not for nights,…
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July 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: LAUREN SHAPIRO
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: LAUREN SHAPIRO · in the Jewish cemetery he is looking for a belovèd but all we see are tiny piles of stones atop the graves of others the grass rises and…
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July 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: LUCI ARBUS-SCANDIFFIO
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: LUCI ARBUS-SCANDIFFIO · When I was a child I was always touching something the crease in the wall the crease in the man’s face a button to the umbrella w…
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July 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: LISA ALLEN ORTIZ
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: LISA ALLEN ORTIZ ·  I already figured out that we imagine the future and then later we exist in the future we imagined. So definitely we are imagi…
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July 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: DIA ROTH
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: DIA ROTH · I'm reading this Diane Seuss poem about Elvis songs aloud to my love and in the poemone person is like What's your favorite Elvis song? Mine i…
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July 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: HENK ROSSOUW

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💬 1  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · MEDITATIVE WEEK OF POETRY: HENK ROSSOUW · In the barn tonight I listen half-asleep    to the cow named Crassula give a low sound    after giving birth to her nameless veal calf. L…
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July 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM