Meg Wade
@hornyforsecrets.bsky.social
Author of Slick Like Dark (TupeloPress) • National Poetry Series finalist • Natural Burial Grief Doula 🌿🕯
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Meg Wade
@hornyforsecrets.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Designing Grief Work: An Interview with Grief Doula, Meg Wade
Meg Wade is the Grief Doula at Larkspur Conservation, Tennessee’s first nature preserve for natural burial.
talkdeath.com
Good time to share that I talked poetry, grief work & granny witches with @talkdeath.bsky.social & am so grateful for this conversation
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"Buy nothing for a day" is a good start. Buy nothing for a week if you can. And if you're able to, buy nothing inessential for as long as possible. Chop the head off the snake.
February 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Buy nothing for a day" is a good start. Buy nothing for a week if you can. And if you're able to, buy nothing inessential for as long as possible. Chop the head off the snake.
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Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.
February 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.
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Too often in workshops and classrooms there is a concentration on the poem's garments instead of its life's blood.
—Linda Gregg, from “The Art of Finding”
—Linda Gregg, from “The Art of Finding”
January 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Too often in workshops and classrooms there is a concentration on the poem's garments instead of its life's blood.
—Linda Gregg, from “The Art of Finding”
—Linda Gregg, from “The Art of Finding”
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can't stop thinking about this little (vast) poem
January 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
can't stop thinking about this little (vast) poem
My favorite Christmas Eve tradition is reading this Hala Alyan poem
December 24, 2024 at 3:30 PM
My favorite Christmas Eve tradition is reading this Hala Alyan poem
Happy Solstice from this prayer of a poem by Linda Gregg
December 21, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Happy Solstice from this prayer of a poem by Linda Gregg
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Paul Celan said that the poem was no different from a handshake... The handshake is our decided ritual of both asserting (I am here) and handing over (here) a self to another. Hence the poem is that—Here. I am here.
—Claudia Rankine, from Don't Let Me Be Lonely
—Claudia Rankine, from Don't Let Me Be Lonely
December 9, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Paul Celan said that the poem was no different from a handshake... The handshake is our decided ritual of both asserting (I am here) and handing over (here) a self to another. Hence the poem is that—Here. I am here.
—Claudia Rankine, from Don't Let Me Be Lonely
—Claudia Rankine, from Don't Let Me Be Lonely
Reposted by Meg Wade
November 17, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Good time to share that I talked poetry, grief work & granny witches with @talkdeath.bsky.social & am so grateful for this conversation
Designing Grief Work: An Interview with Grief Doula, Meg Wade
Meg Wade is the Grief Doula at Larkspur Conservation, Tennessee’s first nature preserve for natural burial.
talkdeath.com
November 15, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Good time to share that I talked poetry, grief work & granny witches with @talkdeath.bsky.social & am so grateful for this conversation