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Benjamin Krusling
isn't the winter where our heads are tilted toward the sun ?
people pass through my life like sirens
which is not right , not desirable

when the day was falling ...
sound was processed , claustrophobic
said love like mine , go , leave

we're in the time the sun produced , or out of time
saying how will we love
this far away from heaven !

well it's lonely here , people say
you shouldn't have been born
but here you are          whole world
to binge
from the book IT GOT SO DARK / Ugly Duckling Presse
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Sun Ra says: "WHAT PLANET IS THIS?/ Is this a planet of life or death?" This is a poem about the capacity to choose more than a life of consuming and reproducing death.

Benjamin Krusling on "all that atheist shit done"
An illustration by Katty Huertas
"How a Poet Teaches her Children Poetry"

"In my house, we won't do anything much differently this month. I've always talked about poetry with my kids the way chefs probably talk to their kids about food. It's just part of life. Instilling a love of poetry in my children started before they could read. It started with play and imagination—low stakes, no pressure. Even when my kids were toddlers, I would encourage them to play with figurative language."

via THE WASHINGTON POST
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Cover image of the cover of Laila Malik's book, archipelago
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Laila Malik on "the organic properties of sand"

"In the petroleum economies of al Khaleej (as elsewhere), there exist micro-universes of so-called expats, a blossoming confusion of recent arrivals and longstanding, multi-generational clans, the newly affluent and then those others who live at the porous boundaries of the less desirable micro-universe of outsiders, migrant workers."
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