Poetry Lunch
Informal poetry reading series with Myrna Keliher, live on Instagram @expeditionpress and archived here. Also! Here's a booklist on bookshop.org, so you can buy them and read them!
Reading “For the Young Vine Maples” by David Wagoner
Wanted, unwanted, bent or straight, looking for light always and “alive where they are.” Something about that line I find very soothing, it reminds me to be alive where I am, less concerned with where I should be.
Listening to “Maunakea” by No‘u Revilla
This poem makes me miss my grandma, and worry and wonder after the seeds inside me and out, and remember the regenerative qualities of water.
Reading “Heart Butte, Montana” by M. L. Smoker
I feel like I’m always hovering there in the almost, between ways. The less I think about it the more I’m in it and the more I think the farther I get from the path I was feeling out.
Reading “Warning” by Jenny Joseph
A poem about cutting loose and letting go, about not caring what others think, about living with abandon and questioning when that’s possible.
Reading “What You Are Doing Is Living” by M. Soledad Caballero
This poem weaves the natural world into the unnatural world of medical exams, diagnoses, treatment. Mush of dead crabs on the beach, wrong cells replicating.