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