Growth Goes Up From Chaos And Loss #vss365 #chaos

Poetic Justice for Minneapolis : a 2-part, in person class at @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social in September, is now open for registration. 💜💗💜 #poetry #poets #poet #justice #Minneapolis #Minnesota #trauma #healing #resistance #resilience #writing #class open.substack.com/pub/cassiepr...

Poetic Justice for Minneapolis

Join me at The Loft Literary Center in September

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This year’s wedding anniversary present to my wife was a handmade candle holder shaped like beaver carvings and then one month later a friend gave us blueberries from the fruit of her family’s labor and all is sweet and summer is not yet over. #vss365 #fruit

I haven’t done #vss365 In a while Because summer And her wiles. But I’m back And so are the tadpoles. This year, the tree frogs Knew just where to go Because evolution And what she knows. But still we must #tend So life can grow.

Happy birthday to my beautiful and brilliant Leo wife!

I was so moved by the presence and participation of all the people in today’s class - from South Carolina and Minnesota, California, Washington, Arizona and more - thank you to @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social in Minneapolis - and looking forward to the two-part, in-person class in September! 💜💗💜

It’s heartwarming that Emmett Till is honored in Chicago, but we must acknowledge that the racism in Mississippi which led to his murder thrives, as people there symbolically lynch him on a regular basis by vandalizing a sign marking where his body was recovered We still have so much work to do

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2w ago

Emmett Till was born right here in Chicago on July 25, 1941. And it is with deep humility and great pride that I signed legislation this week at Roberts Temple to declare his birthday as the Illinois Day of Reflection and Remembrance of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.

In my essay for @qianawhitted.bsky.social Desegregating Comics, I wrote a little ab Emmett Till as a comics reader. The bed he was in when he was kidnapped was piled with comics and magazines; one of his Chicago neighbors said a bit about his comics reading. He was a kid. He should still be here.

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2w ago

Emmett Till was born right here in Chicago on July 25, 1941. And it is with deep humility and great pride that I signed legislation this week at Roberts Temple to declare his birthday as the Illinois Day of Reflection and Remembrance of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.

Thank you so much for sharing this, Rilla! 🩵 #poetry #healing #trauma #writing #class @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social

Rilla Askew@rilla-askew.bsky.social · 3w ago

For poets and aspiring poets who’re looking to wrestle in words with the world we’re in now, here’s a workshop offered by the amazing Cassie Primo Steele. loft.org/classes/writ... @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social

WRITING POETRY UNDER TRAUMATIC FASCISM Online #class with @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social next Saturday— inspired by the courage and resilience seen in Minnesota during the ICE raid. #trauma #poetry #witness #collective #resilience #healing #writing #resistance #poet #writer #immigration #rights

Writing Poetry Under Traumatic Fascism

An online class hosted by The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis

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In 2 weeks: #Writing #Poetry Under Traumatic Fascism | 3 hr online class hosted by @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social Taught by award-winning #poet & #trauma scholar @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social #poets #resist #ICE #Minnesota #resilience #writingcommunity 🦋Please share🦋 loft.org/classes/writ...

#poems #poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #WoodyGuthrie #Oklahoma #OklahomaCity #immigration #immigrants #resist #fascism

HEAD and THONG

poems from the opening night of Woody Poets

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#Oklahoma #poets #poetry #history #writers #writing #writingcommunity #WoodyGuthrie #native #indigenous

Oklahoma is not what you think

And neither are you

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Skoden!

This weekend as we reflect on 250 years of #history, let’s also remember the thousands of years before that and the people who were here since time immemorial- and are STILL HERE. #July4th #SouthCarolina #Independence is interdependent. 💙💚🩵 www.postandcourier.com/free-times/o...

Still Here: Our Midlands roots run deep – 12,000 Years of History

Cassie Premo Steele and dog Lenny Bruce and set out to walk the trails of history that can be found at the 12,000 Year History Park in Cayce. They were not disappointed.

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Hey #poets #writers #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity and folx who 💙 #poetry and #writing - here’s a way to celebrate July 4th and celebrate your power to #create freedom from fascism. #Oklahoma #WoodyGuthrie cassiepremosteele.substack.com/p/four-years...

Four Years of Woody Poetry - Now the 5th!

Celebrating the 4th in a Non-Fascist Way

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One bright bloom is mine The other is my wife’s We planted them to honor The cessation of our cycles But not the ending of life Aging is florid and full of light #vss365 #florid

SCOTUS today Slaughtered us. The separation of Powers - shared With the Founding Fathers by the Iroquois And Five Civilized Tribes after the first Settlers arrived - It’s lying now like Carrion on the roadside As the Trump regime Guns the gas and Drives over it - and us #vss365 #carrion #SCOTUS

This is today and I am SO ready! Thank you to the @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social once again for the opportunity! 💙💗💙

Here I am last evening at an event celebrating the publication of Old Growth: An Anthology Inspired by Congaree National Park, 100% of the proceeds of which support this historically significant UNESCO-designated biosphere region. As writers, every grain makes a difference. 🔗 👇🏽 #vss365 #grain

The World Cup is great (After four years’ wait) Amiri is certainly first rate (He opens the goal floodgate) My wife and I will congratulate (Mainz was her birthplace) Kömmerling pays team freight (But we will never defenestrate) When Germany earns gold weight #vss365 #defenestrate

A bunch of flowers said Yes To Sun and then some Bees said Let me dance on That and there was a Drum and Sun danced, Too, and we had a sweet Time on this longest day Of light, a party of yellow In a bright, happy batch of Petals, pride, and sun. Honey, I love love love you. #vss365 #batch #solstice

Hey Madame Bovary, Here’s a cabin-riding Mic drop for thee: Undo the clench in your Jaw instead of opening Your French undies. Novels need a fiend. But women in the past 170 Could use a friend. By which I mean, use your Words. Égalité. Sorority. Say it plain. #vss365 #Undo #Clench #Novel #Fiend

Join me for poeTRYhealing next Saturday with @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social to learn how #poetry can help us #heal and shift to healthier ways of life individually and collectively. #writing #healing #trauma #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writingprompt www.cassiepremosteele.com/teaching.html

At the end Of all Our consuming That sends The earth fuming Flooding and dooming When we are lying In final quietus May our bodies Become one With the source Of every gift That our minds While living Kept distant From us #vss365 #Distant #Gift #Quietus #Consuming

Everybody Was a Baby Just before dawn A mother walks To the cradle Horror dreams Still echoing within Yet skin enables Soft touch near Her hands here No deadfall trap Helping arms and lap To keep forbidden fears From coming back #vss365 #Forbidden #Mother #Dawn #Deadfall #Horror #Cradle

#art #poetry #writing #trauma #healing #traumainformed #writingprompt #climate #environment #poeTRYhealing #class #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/cassiepr...

3 Ways to Help the World Right Now

new poem - new art - new class

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We’re here. We’re queer. We voted. #primary #votingday #SouthCarolina

The thing they don’t say About immigrant families Who speak more than one Language in the home is that Laughter becomes the score & Joy the backbeat evermore #ves365 #evermore

At the time of night some insomniacs are just falling asleep - 3:15 most days - which is for me the morning - I sit down on a couch with a candle and an essential oil lamp glowing rainbows - my writing buddy Lenny Bruce next to me - and from my hand and his paw - we create beauty. #vss365 #falling