bloody noses & strange vivid dreams are common at high altitude
this isn’t a post so much as a reminder to stay on it.
it’s late June, and I am 1/15 lucky ghosts featured in Ghost Proposal’s beautiful tenth issue.
remember: grief is a byproduct of being alive. it is my constant companion, and reminder to love you right now, instead of at some distant plot point in the future.
i feel like a moth riding a train, a part time water taxi, and a ripe nectarine filling an office with its scent.
“Since I have already decided that sweat is romantic, friends, let me say that I also have a crush on the feeling of night air cooling the sweat off skin when a body pours out of a hot and packed space. I am beginning to have a crush on crystals, I think. Definitely obsidian, but perhaps a few of the others that look like miniature caves. And, yes, I have a crush on memories that were surely not as beautiful as I have made them out to be. Because that’s the whole trick. I’ve had crushes on all my friends, and if they don’t have one back on me that’s fine because I’m still going to text them at unfortunate and odd hours of the day with some useless miracle that I couldn’t possibly keep to myself. So few of my crushes speak back. I am cultivating my comfort with unanswered desires, and it is going well. I have room for so much more. I say a prayer. I fall in love.” - Hanif Abdurraqib
in august, i’ll be a ghost in a ghost town.
(“as an unintended part of a course of action”)
Joshua Tree at dawn
Really excited to be a part of the Studio One reading series, in its tenth year! See you there, Oakland~
I’ll be reading at the sema reading series next month, alongside John Myers ( Smudgy and Lossy, available from The Song Cave.)
Friday April 19th, 7 pm at Neckar Coffee in Boise
Come see Sara Mumolo and I read from our new books and chapbooks this December 13th, 2018 at 7:30 PM at Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco.
Read Woman with Her Throat Cut by Alisa Dodge in the latest issue of Cordite Poetry Review.
Hear this poem as read by the poet, & read it as written.
"The poet is not there only to share a poetic communication but to stimulate an imaginative speculation on the nature of reality."
The 20th anniversary issue of 580 Split is now live, and you can read my poem here. The entire issue is beautiful.
it's possible that I'll be reading some poetry at this on Thursday, & it's even more possible that I'll be having a drink.
As I was clicking through old drafts & applications of mine, I found the poetic statement I wrote for my Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship exactly one year ago.
Having to write statements are useful exercises. I could never hand you an "about-ness" for my writing, but a statement forces me to look at how I look, which magically always leads me to look with a newness.
It felt fitting to both share the statement, & finally launch my site, which has been a good six slow months in the making.
Please visit again & stay in contact: caroline.connor.poetry @ gmail