A really beautiful piece about poetry, and asking the same questions about life again and again, and wonder, and being human, by Devin Kelly. https://open.substack.com/pub/ordinaryplots/p/jane-hirshfields-to-be-a-person?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2t69m

#poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #JaneHirshfield #DevinKelly #writing #life #wonder

Jane Hirshfield's "To Be a Person"

On four years of writing about poems

Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse

Must read: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

W.S. Merwin's "To the Blank Spaces"
Thoughts on silence and protest and solidarity. (by Devin Kelly)

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https://ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/ws-merwins-to-the-blank-spaces

#poetry #protests #solidarity #studentprotest #campus #protest #Gaza #DevinKelly

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W.S. Merwin's "To the Blank Spaces"

Thoughts on silence and protest and solidarity.

Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse
W.S. Merwin's "To the Blank Spaces"

Thoughts on silence and protest and solidarity.

Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse

If you love poetry and you're not reading Devin Kelly's writings about poetry, here's one to give you an idea. Devin always shares a poem, then makes connections between those words, other writers, so many things in the world.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's "Upon Arrival": Thoughts on solidarity as an enlargement of our imaginative capability

https://ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/lena-khalaf-tuffahas-upon-arrival

#LenaKhalafTuffaha #DevinKelly #poetry #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #Gaza #WAWOG #solidarity #ZoraNealeHurston #teaching #literature

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's "Upon Arrival"

Thoughts on solidarity as an enlargement of our imaginative capability.

Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse