HeyJaredLiving Poetry
Short, pebbly reflections about where living + poetry collide. Arrives every other Thursday.
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“How a poem is both the born creature and the birth record.” (opens the original)
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*The title (above) is from a line in Maggie Smith’s “Self-Portrait as an Incomplete List of Mysteries” from her new collection, A Suit or a Suitcase. I’m Allie, a poet with roots in the California chaparral. Dear Living Poetry friends,A few days ago, the autumnal equinox marked the passage from summer into fall. Meanwhile, murmurs of El Niño ripple across the news in California. How all models are wrong, but some are u
Early autumn in the Sierra Nevada is a poem (opens the original)
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Welcome to Living Poetry. I’m Allie, a poet with roots in the California chaparral. Dear Living Poetry friends,We are entering the white dew, interstitial tide between summer and fall. From September 7 until the equinox on September 22, this is the zone of transition. “White dew” is from the 24 solar terms, created by farmers in ancient China, which I knew nothing about until Lucia Deyi of Moon Rabbit Musings</
What if every story is an Odyssey story? (opens the original)
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Welcome to Living Poetry. I’m Allie, a poet with roots in the chaparral and desert of Southern Calfornia.NOTE: This is the third and final reflection from this mini-series. In each post, I refer to Emily Wilson’s 2018 translation of The Odyssey as well as Christopher Nolan’s 2026 film.Nolan vs. Wilson’s The OdysseyI tried to avoid going into the heart of the Nolan vs. Wilson d
What time does to a person, what women (opens the original)
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Welcome to Living Poetry. I’m Allie, a poet with roots in the chaparral and desert of Southern California. Read more
One of the world's most epic poems is back in popular dialogue (opens the original)
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Welcome to Living Poetry. I’m Allie, a poet with roots in the chaparral and desert of Southern California. Read more
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