Culture Sweatpants & Pop Culture | Peace and Long Life Though bittersweet now, two years after his passing, today we get to celebrate Leonard Nimoy’s birthday. Though I doubt he Jessi-James Grey Posted on March 25, 2017
Culture Sweatpants & Equality | Audre Lorde: Warrior Poet “Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.” —Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” Born on Jessi-James Grey Posted on February 17, 2017
Culture Sweatpants & Equality | Alice Walker In honor of her 73rd birthday, we take a look at Alice Walker’s journey from rural Georgia to the Pulitzer and beyond. Jessi-James Grey Posted on February 8, 2017
Inspiration Sweatpants & Creativity | Girls Raise Their Voices at Media Poetry Camp By Amy McElroy Source: Media Poetry Studio Last April, Erica Goss, Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California, was dreaming and Amy McElroy Posted on May 1, 2016
Essays Personal Essay | FLASH By Joy Wilson Parrish Strangely, I saw the flash quite clearly—not the flash of genius or the storied “life before the eyes” Guest Author Posted on March 18, 2016
Culture 10 Banned Poets You Should Know Source:(x) You sit in your cozy room, enjoying a casual read through any book you like. It feels like an indulgence, a quiet Julia Park Tracey Posted on September 30, 2015
Inspiration Raw Honey | Pain, Sweetness & Feminism from Rupi Kaur Rupi Kaur’s poetry is simple, yet vibrant with truth. Her first collection of poems, Milk and Honey, is rich with pain, Julia Park Tracey Posted on June 23, 2015
Inspiration Less Than Two Standard Deviations | Poems of Fatherhood Catching Up With You How quickly they catch up, those things. The things of which you only completed half, the half that Tony Moir Posted on June 19, 2015
Inspiration Media Poetry Studio: Letting Girl Poets Be Seen & Heard Two years before Erica Goss was named Los Gatos’ Poet Laureate, she stumbled across a video poem on the internet, Amy McElroy Posted on April 14, 2015
Books Free & Cheap Reads, 4/10/15 | Book Nook Battle demons and vampires with spunky heroines, find out how and why your instincts protect you, go on a journey of Sweatpants & Coffee Posted on April 10, 2015