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conceptualized with friends after the secrets reading with rayne fisher-quann, pe moscowitz, terry nguyen, eliza mclamb, and others..
basically everyone brings a poem but no one knows whose is whose and then you shuffle them up so people read a poem with an unknown author. wildly successful. pairs well with wine and conversation.
Sep 19, 2024
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poetry you wrote or someone else's, doesn't matter. plunge into the intimacy baby. silly, dark, whatever
Jan 23, 2024
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Last night, a few friends were celebrating the birthday of their ensemble by getting together and improvising over drinks. I was asked to come and read a few poems but I was feeling so moved by the improvisation that I decided to read 6 poems at once. I sat on the ground, spread the papers around me, and just allowed myself to move from one to the other randomly. The results were amazing. I’ll never read that poem again but it worked! And it maybe opened my mind to a new style of revision.
Feb 23, 2025
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We do a “question of the week” every week (that has nothing to do with work). This week, someone asked that each of us write a line for a poem. One person started it then tagged another person to write the next line… it was a fun time.
Apr 1, 2025
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if you think you’re the smartest person in your friend group you’re weird and annoying. the best friendships come out of mutual awe and respectability. be friends with people who make you want to know more things.
Jan 29, 2024
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i will never be in a situationship in the same way i will never be in the land of oz--it's just not real. i think using the word doesn't let you self-reflect in a way that is truly helpful. i was telling my friend about the awkwardness of seeing an exhook up in a relationship bc i thought we had mutual feelings and she said "oh your exsituationship" and i thought (for the first time) no, we had clear boundaries i just got my hopes up. my point is that instead of using situationship as a catch-all for not quite dating or wtv failed prospect, take it as a moment to reflect on what exactly went wrong. idk if this is profound or not
Jan 30, 2025
i’m averaging 14,000 steps a day for the past year, why? i walk everywhere. at one point i was averaging 16,000 (this is my flex). you get to explore a city and now when people ask me for directions i can actually tell them bc i’ve gotten really good at knowing where i am. if it takes less than an hour for me to walk from a to b, i will walk. if i have enough time i’ll walk 2+ hours just to see someone. just put on a good playlist/pod and go go go!!
Jan 29, 2024