'Frog,' said Toad, 'let us eat one very last cookie, and then we will stop.'

Anyway Amtrak Alerts, no matter the reason, thanks for the opportunity to spend the last 2 hours frantically rearranging my daughter's travel back to college. Really appreciate the diversion and the expense.

ingrid skys all of osu for the assist to hahna for point 3
sweets dominate 3-0

easy bookends for ingrid she cooks
2-1 us

Which would you rather do, give birth without meds or make 4 calls to strangers at local businesses to follow up on a fundraising letter?

In case you want to eat a lot of pancakes with some cool kids in Minneapolis on April 22, or want to support an excellent team, or both: mailchi.mp/74087b812901/p…

Today's poetry thread: YOUTH & AGE

There is a season for everything. Here's a stunner by A. R. Ammons. Feel free to add poems.

The perfect rhyme across stanzas of 'you' and 'rue' in this little tooth by Thomas Lux.

Sometimes Sunday nights can be daunting. So here’s a tender work by the gifted Taryn Knight. Thank you for your kind notes -I’ll reply this week. Hugs to you all ❤️✨

Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #WomensArt

Man on a Laptop (Early Morning). Hand coloured etching from my series paying homage to Samuel Palmer.

Hi Libby, by OverDrive. How come when I hit the iPhone control center 'back' button more than once it takes me all the way to the beginning of the section/book? Super annoying.

a student in my class shared this lovely poem of time travel with me, and it breaks my heart

new middle aged thing: jaw injury from eating stale sugar babies

BY CONTRAST, this The Adroit Journal interview w/ Ocean Vuong is meaty & generative. Taught it today as a hinge btw 'Night Sky' & 'Time' & love what OV says about writer-reader bond despite clear separation, about formal fractals, etc. Lovely work Divya! 👏👏👏theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-on…

I don't want to give one editor who operates without any oversight/regard for her colleagues and a writer with boring takes to overshadow more interesting and urgent voices. So here are some pieces by marginalized authors I have been really proud to publish:

maybe you need to reread this poem today? I did.

poets.org/poem/what-livi…

Thinking of Anne Sexton, who died 48 years ago today. “Her Kind” remains on my list of all-time favorite poems. 🌹