The Poetry Project is hosting its 51st Annual New Year’s Day marathon on January 1st starting at 1 pm Eastern Time.

The schedule and links to where tickets (both in-person and to the livestream) can be purchased are at https://www.poetryproject.org/events/the-51st-annual-new-year-s-day-marathon

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fifty seven
finding my feet again
new beginnings
while
open and out

after a hidden life time
of that’s not normal
of why you’re not doing it right

but now I’m free

this is me in the sunshine
this is me in the light

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(this is also kind of #trans #nonBinary too :-) )

I like this

https://confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/for-sake-of-joy-of-study-of-oneself-together

(interestingly Stewart Lee reading the text)

I like the use of electronics in the improvising ensemble (given that's essentially 'my instrument’ - although I don't put out much of my improvisational work)

I also like the text and how it works with the piece - again something I've been much more interested in of late with the #poetryproject (which is still active - just been an awful lot of “life” and not enough “making things” of late)

My author copies have arrived - what a joy to hold them. It was a deeply moving & sometimes difficult experience to read poems as guest editor, due to the subject matter. We were a team of 6 for this reason.

But, what a collection this is. I am speechless, these poets 🕯️🕯️

https://sidhe-press.eu/books/to-light-the-trails-poems-by-women-in-a-violent-world/

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adrift in slow rain

quiet light
with small sounds
hiding in the moment

In sadness
In silence

a private place
before the storm
builds again

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who will remember my ghosts when I am gone
irreplaceable loss hoarded valiantly against uncaring time
fragile webs of memory holding my soul together
those evocations just dust in the howling desert wind

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she walked here
she worked here
skin raw from the wind
never enough
food, warmth, sleep , life

bones beneath
secrets hidden

the land knows

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I made an instagram account for collecting my poetry project films

https://www.instagram.com/junklightpoetry?igsh=Z2w3OXZ6Ym5uOTRt&utm_source=qr

I’ll continue to post them here & as stories on my main instagram account (& as shorts on my YouTube as and when I remember)

I’m really enjoying making them. There will be 2 or 3 a week and I also plan to do some longer videos (not in vertical resolution) too

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