Beyond Boundaries · Essays and Tidbits From Nancy Bo Flood
Today, in celebration of National Poetry Month, I’d like to share this video from Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell, talking about the book Good Luck Gold & more by Janet and sharing a poem from Jen Bryant, “Laugh,” in Pomelo Books’ Things We Do.
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My friend, poet and teacher April Halprin Wayland, shares one of her poems with us, “Exercising My Voice.”
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May I share a quote from John F. Kennedy that I keep above my desk?
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Let us continue Celebrating Water.
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Water: a book, a poem, a brief essay … a continuation of the celebration of water.
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Water is precious. Water is life. Water is unfair, but this doesn’t have to be.
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Lois Lowry: “I think it’s something that literature does, that writing does, that speaking about things does. It keeps our hearts from breaking.”
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A few weeks ago, someone was asking about books that touched upon—or included—domestic abuse/ family violence. Paulsen’s book is an autobiography.
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I have been pulled toward the subject of suicide since I was a teen despite its stigma, and worked on my first suicide hotline when I was eighteen. That’s because as an adolescent I struggled not only with depression but with some periods of suicidality, and I understand the dangerous power and seduction of it when one is suffering mental despair.
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S.D. Nelson, Standing Rock Sioux, author and artist, meticulous researcher, passionate about the history of his people, his ancestors, his homeland, Indian and white, has written the epic story of Crazy Horse and Custer.
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Being process not a thing, not matter more thoughts and this poem Singularity by Marie Howe (after Stephen Hawking) Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity We once were? So…
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