Creative director/writer in Chicago. Prose & poetry in Floating Bridge Review, SundogLit, Chicago Reader, BOTN nominee.
Celebrating/honoring people for who they are, ekphrasis, film, music, poetic forms, speaking truth to power, visual arts.
AVATAR: smiling white woman w pandemic grey hair, tortoise-shell glasses, black sweater & black/red striped scarf. HEADER: night pic of office blg w neon installation "ALL WE HAVE IS WORDS / ALL WE HAVE IS WORLDS" (yellow letters w red glow).
To work within the structure of words, is to become an architect of possibility, an engineer of imagination. It is to create a place of shelter and repose, to invite others within, so that we can learn how to see, how to dream again.
"Writers have always led us beyond the reality we currently inhabit. They have showed us things we hadnāt yet imagined were possible." (Jacob Nordby, Blessed Are the Weird)
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What would it mean to live
in a city whose people were changing
each otherās despair into hope? ā
You yourself must change it. ā
what would it feel like to know
your country was changing? ā
You yourself must change it. ā
Though your life felt arduous
new and unmapped and strange
what would it mean to stand on the first
page of the end of despair?
from "Dreams Before Waking" by Adrienne Rich
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