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Stosh

Farewell, my beautiful Sounds of Poems co-host. Big event. Lots of other poets. This poet enters. This poet chuckles. Other poets hear this poet’s chuckle. Oops. Microphone left open again. Other poets chuckle also. In text. Other poets welcome this poet before she has a chance to register on their radars. Happily. Other poets pleased […]

Liquidator

A fine, sunny day. The leaves look good on the trees. I’ve waited through the winter to see just that. It is good to see them again. It is good to stand in this sun with my comrades. I see the tops of buildings. I see washing hanging from balconies. People live here. My people. […]

Everwinter: more from Pripyat

You know how it is, right? You start reading about something because there’s a item on the news because the date is significant; next thing you know you’re devouring whatever information you can find on the subject. Yesterday, this led to me watching “The Battle of Chernobyl,” a 2006 documentary about the response to the […]

При́пять

Thirty years ago this week, reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, creating the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and causing 31 deaths directly in the immediate clean-up and an estimated 4,000 deaths across Europe in the years following (according to WHO). The accident led to the total evacuation of […]

Hope is a four letter word

Hope is a four letter word that we learned as children meant our dreams could be heard. That the world might not end, that the nukes were absurd, that the ‘truth’ was relative and that ‘truth’ would get stirred and spread across the globe so that boundaries got blurred. We thought hatred would be beaten […]

Blue Angel Landing to return

It’s with enormous pleasure that I can reveal I’ve accepted an invitation to join the team of editors who will work on a brand new edition of Blue Angel Landing. Blue Angel Landing was originally the idea of then Blue Angel Poets’ Dive proprietress Persephone Phoenix, a poetry journal showcasing the very best of the […]

Sounds of Poems at Fantasy Faire

Last night I attended Sounds of Poems at the 2016 Fantasy Faire, a fantasy-themed event you’ve probably already heard about that raises money for Relay for Life. SoP runs every Monday evening, but often relocates for big SL events. I haven’t read for it in a very long time and it was a pleasure to […]

Hard places

I love concrete buildings, and I adore the concrete buildings of Fanatik. I live in a Lambarte and have invested time and effort adapting and furnishing it; even so, I’m often tempted when I’m at the Fanatik main store to ditch it and buy one of their latest creations instead. Like Rokko. This gorgeous construction of […]

Hope

Caitlin Tobias sent me an invitation to the opening of ‘A Stand for Hope Photography Exhibition,’ which included an exhibition of SL photographs taken of cancer survivors and carergivers. Both sides of this are salient in my family right now, as I imagine they are for many. The images were revealed about an hour into […]

Still

I’ve come to see Kate Bergdorf’s exhibition of SL photography, “I want for you to be still” at Dathuil. This is Kate’s first ever exhibition of her SL pictures and the title of the exhibition is also the title of a 1924 poem by Pablo Neruda. A notecard available from Kate via the poster at the […]