Insect appreciation post! 1) Past: With Daniel Kobamelo and termite mound in Botswana c 2013 on an Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. 2) Present: CT nature friends, a house bill on pesticides that needs written testimony by 2/19--easy to do w/ this link.
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Just a little gender-complex family from the 17th century. My beloved José de Ribera's portrait of Magdalena Ventura, spouse, and bambino, from 1631. (Ribera was Spanish but spent his working life in Naples, a city that opens your eyes.)🥰

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Poets, do you have a first or second book manuscript? The deadline approaches for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize: $3,000 + publication by Waywiser + a reading with judge Shane McCrae at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.// Submit by Dec 1, 2024// details: hechtprize.waywiser-press.com