Community
Abandon
your despair, you who enter here forsaken.
The wind is saying something. Listen.
—Kim Addonizio
I am a social writer. I don’t believe in writing by myself in a little box. Writing is about community. Reading and sharing.
Here are some works that I love:
Poems
High Desert, New Mexico – Kim Addonizio
Her Kind – Anne Sexton
Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be The Same – Robert Frost
Asphodel – A. E. Stallings
Story Problems – Gailmarie Pahmeier
How to Triumph Like a Girl – Ada Limon
Batter My Heart, Three-Person’d God – John Donne
Stories
Waste – Christopher Coake
The Wind – Lauren Groff
Recoveries – Susan Palwick
The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
A for Alone – Curtis Sittenfeld
Maryam And Yeshua – Kate Osterloh