For #theSealeyChallenge. I won’t be reading a book a day, but perhaps occasionally sharing poems from what I am reading. Today’s seems fit for the start of August from Jan Zwicky’s Songs for Relinquishing the Earth.
Erin Coughlin Hollowell
@beingpoetry.bsky.social
Poet, artist, apprentice to light. 3rd poetry collection CORVUS AND CRATER (2023) ED: Storyknife Writers Retreat & Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. BEI Fellow. At the end of the road in Alaska. http://www.beingpoetry.net
If you were an Alaskan, you would know that when the fireweed blossom reaches the top, summer is over.... But what this one means is that you have just a little over a month to apply for a 2027 Storyknife writing residency. www.storyknife.org/how-to-apply
Sunlight rattle-passes each wave, licks each stone. Command or entreaty, spectacle or threshold. . #apprenticetolight
Clouds in the west laid great shivering mirages on the plain, the shadows of dreams of lakes gone dry ten million years ago.
Inject this kind of poetry right into my veins. (from Christian Wiman's new collection The Dance)
Excited to have work in this collection with so many amazing poets. Pre-order now!
Center for Humans & Nature@humansandnature.bsky.social · last mo.🐝 From plant communication to bees’ sense of beauty, animism, & hedgehogs, SENSORIA offers a sensory feast that includes and goes beyond human perceptions by honoring & attending to more-than-humans lifeworlds. From Humans & Nature Press. Out Sept 8. Preorder here: humansandnature.org/shop/sensoria
It's a little too specific for most people here, but I've created an educational game about Alaska's boroughs and census areas. Can you locate them correctly? Link: geographyquiz.app/quiz/usa-ala... #Alaska #geography
What is the difference between inspiration and extraction? (Please don’t feel you have to answer immediately. Mull it over for a while.)
Do you have questions about what a residency at Storyknife entails? Do you want to learn more about the application process? Register for an Application and Residency Information Session at storyknife.org/infosession26/. Drop in at any point during the scheduled time on July 23!
Let's write some poetry together. I'm very excited to teach this class as part of the Orion Writers' Workshops. Application deadline on 7/15! Learn more: orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...
Come take a poetry class with me! orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...
The Gift of Attention: A Poetry Workshop with Erin Coughlin Hollowell - Orion Magazine
The Course: From Lichen to Glacier – The Gift of Attention When we write about landscapes we know well and inhabit, it is easy to stop truly seeing and fall into...
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I've become a person who doesn’t want to write poems that sit like a well-formed vase on a steady table. I’ve become a person who is more interested in poetry that seems like maybe a spell? Maybe a teacup of rainwater? Maybe a glass upturned over a hole under which a wasp nest might reside?
Put it on your calendar and register now for July's Live from Storyknife! storyknife.org/live-from-st...
I was fortunate to get my hands on an ARC of the inestimable Carolyn Forché’s new collection Otherwhere which will come out in September. Pre-order it immediately; even the preface is exquisite. 1/3
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
They are arresting U.S. Air Force Officers for free speech and U.S. Olympians for curiosity—but not rich men for raping children with Jeffrey Epstein.
Hey Poets! Come take a class with me this fall. We're going to work on repositioning ourselves and our work in the landscape. Let's talk point of view, language, form, and imagery. This will truly be a gift of attention. Registration open now at: orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...
Today, I voted YES to release the names of Members of Congress who used taxpayer dollars to settle sexual misconduct and other misconduct cases in Congress. No more abuses of power and no more hiding behind a system that shields perpetrators. We will always fight for justice for survivors—period.
KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.
“I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay, small acts of kindness and love.” J.R.R. Tolkien (Sometimes, on quiet sunny summer mornings, it really does feel as if I live in the Shire.) #alaska
Folks, I'm pretty excited to be back in the virtual classroom this fall, not to mention how pleased I am to be repping the Orion Writers' Workshop. Registration opens up on July 1st: orionmagazine.org/events-works... Let's write some poetry together!
I am so pleased to have my work in this issue of The Freshwater Review. It contains the poem that won the Rose Warner Prize for Poetry and this other as well. 💚
