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musician, poet, MFA candidate @ CU Boulder, poetry editor @timberjournal

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Hello everyone! I have a new album out today, titled "Quickly Aging Here," (shoutout Denis Johnson!) if anybody wants to check it out. On spotify + all streaming sites. Hope ya dig it <3
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RT @saintsoftness: Having an intense Charles Simic phase, a poet of microverses and terse complexities. His poems on Joseph Cornell’s sculp….
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RT @maureenthorson: “The elegies began writing themselves.” A poem by Mary Biddinger.
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Tomas Tranströmer, tr. Patty Crane ~ . I must go out into the greenness that's filled .with memories, and they follow me with their gaze.
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Zachary Schomburg ~ This is some kind of bravery.
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John Yau ~ . My brother and I want.to be held in that cold.hard glue some zealots.still call the world
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RT @biancastone: "At the farthest remove from knowledge, the poem is exemplarily a thought that is obtained in the retreat, or the defectio….
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John Yau ~ . Don't make friends with my dog.I used to collect ideas until I realized. I don't have any of my own.Learn to shirk your duties
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Rilke, tr. MacIntyre ~ "Initiation". Whoever you are, go out into the evening,.leaving your room, of which you know each bit,.your house is the last before the infinite,.whoever you are.
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Historical brutality, .you are a poppy.
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RT @phillipcrymble: Another remarkable poem by Marianne Boruch, this one demonstrating Robert Pinsky's observation that "[h]er poems often….
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Why try .to revive the lyric
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RT @ChelsDingman: Catherine Barnett
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RT @susanlleary: Audre Lorde 💙. from THE BLACK UNICORN
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RT @aliner: ❤️
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Zachary Schomburg ~ . It looks like outside .inside.
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Zachary Schomburg ~ . How do you tell someone .their family is .tiny insects? . How do you tell someone .their boy is .a hummingbird?
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Zachary Schomburg ~ . I am a tree.you can't see.
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RT @KAVARI_:
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oh wow this checks out in a very strange and perfect way.
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Haneke’s storyboard for The Piano Teacher // Paul Klee’s Forgetful Angel
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