Today's poem is "Leonard Peltier's Plea For Clemency" by Sage Ravenwood from Shō Poetry Journal versedaily.org/2024/leonardpe… via Verse Daily (@versedaily.bsky.social)

I’m up on Verse Daily today! Check it out! 🙏🙌

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Forever grateful. They were one of the good ones and will be missed dearly. 🙏🤟

A poetry expose, halfway between beauty and chaos. ‘I still don’t like my face’ but this book is what happens when you cut the raw truth from your body and expose it to the light of day. The emptying… Gallaudet University Press

Three years ago I had something to say written in blood… So proud to have shared space with so many talented writers back then in an earlier issue of Massachusetts Review

Truly an honor. 🙏🤟

Today’s Friday Five: some reads for your (long, for many in the U.S.) weekend. Great stuff from Sage Ravenwood Rebecca Tiger Hippocampus Magazine & Books Melissa McDaniel Perry Write or Die Magazine Querencia Press SUBS OPEN trampset and more. #WritingCommunity #FridayFive andrewcareaga.com/2024/08/30/fri…

Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. A wonderful Native American poet whose works I recently discovered and enjoy reading is Sage Ravenwood. Read some of her works here: sageravenwood.com/publications/

Happy Bookaversary! It’s been one year since Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost debuted. I would love to hear what you thought of the collection or if there was a favorite poem. 🙏🤟

Thank you! Truly an honor! 🙏🤟

What is Autumn of the soul but a lesson in how to let the dead things go. And what if we can’t? It’s been a quiet year of gentling loss and goodbyes. Words unflinchingly stabbing pins in nerve endings like a voodoo doll as if we haven’t already succumbed to grief.

With tears of joy. Today’s a good day. 🙏🤟

There’s no flesh between love and pain…Twin shadows, never one without the other.” I’m a little too ‘real’, so you might want to grab a copy before it ends up getting banned in this new reality we find ourselves in. gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Everyt…

It’s an honor to have two of my poems up by Gallaudet University Press in honor of #NationalPoetryMonth. Here’s ‘NightSpeaks’ and ‘Playing God with a Flashlight’ from EVERYTHING THAT HURT US BECOMES A GHOST. I’ve included info on how to get your copy.

*Lit Cigarette Summer is in two parts. The recent Canadian wildfires have me returning to this poem of mine in @scavengers.lit . NY’s red haze moonlit nights of ‘what have we done’, is yet another in your face reminder. The world is becoming a dumpster fire with each passing day.