My Take on “The Poetry Biz” February 6, 2023 Like a toddler being tossed into the shallow end of the pool for his first swim, I was tossed into the shallow end of the poetry pool four years ago, when I joined my first online poetry group on Facebook. One group led to another, ...
the knowledge that my loyalties had shifted, that all the hard-wired truths of my childhood were coming unglued, that I’d found in her a refuge from the military precision I’d forever found chafing, that she was
Navigating my feelings around all of this has been close to impossible. I know, rationally, that I can’t engage in activism while I’m in a panic spiral, and I can’t be present and stable for my kid if I’m doomscrolling and reposting. But as I recently found out I have ADHD, ...
So doing, we blind ourselves to the fact that these people in charge are blinded and made stupid by their greed and self-interest. They see dimly, if at all, through that screen at the dire prospects they are juggling with. With such tunnel vision, they are hardly capable of seeing the...
First and foremost, I want to start off by saying while going through this painful process, probably mentally the darkest season of my life I read a lot of doubter’s comments when I looked up this topic. Especially people infected saying: “It is what it is. No cure. Deal with it ...