Tag: Poetry
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Happy Poetry Break Day
(Yes, that’s official. I just checked with the Muse. She nodded.) Some days are for productivity.Some days are for inboxes.And some days—quietly, rebelliously—are for poetry. Poetry Break Day on January 13 is the pause button you’re allowed to press without explaining yourself. It’s the moment you stop trying to be useful and let language be…
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Take a Poet to Lunch: A Brief (and Slightly Hungry) History of Poetry
Today, January 6, is National Take a Poet to Lunch Day. Long before poetry was something you encountered on a greeting card or scrolled past on your phone, it was how humans remembered who they were. Poetry began as breath and rhythm—spoken aloud around fires, carried across generations before writing even existed. The earliest poets…
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Happy Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts
A Completely Appropriate Celebration for Fiction Writers Today, December 12, is the Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts, a holiday that sounds suspiciously made up but is, in fact, rigorously observed by anyone who writes fiction or poetry and has ever stared at a sentence thinking, If I leave this in, people will have questions. Writing does…
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A Birthday Launch And a Book Finally Born
Today, something delightful happened: I celebrated a birthday… and delivered a book. Not the kind of delivery that takes nine months, but certainly the kind that grows in its own mysterious timeline—draft by draft, sketch by sketch, whisper by whisper—until one morning you wake up and realize the thing you’ve been nurturing has finally decided…
A Heep of Words: Books by Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, Lexa Drane 