I need to write. I cannot write. I need to write.
You, too? This summer, 20 true words per day.
June
The Trouble with Poetry is
it doesn’t pay the bills or wash the dishes or switch the fucking laundry from the washer to the dryer and then everything gets all moldy—poetry it doesn’t buy groceries it doesn’t vacuum or mop it doesn’t snuggle it doesn’t respect personal boundaries or women or rules poetry especially does not respect rules poetry will…
Popping Bubbles
Audio. 4 poems by Emily Bobo, set to music composed by Don Freund, performed by Indiana University’s contemporary vocal collective NOTUS, recorded on Weaving Eternity: Music of Wild Imagination, released in September, 2025. Tracks 5-8. Poems included in full text here:
Poetry Practice
I tell people that “poetry saved my life.” And it is true. I grew up female and artistically inclined in a small, conservative town just off I-35, halfway between Wichita and Kansas City. We had more churches, guns, and cows than schools, and I found escape in poetry and piano. When I started public school…
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