Open Language
a tiny ritual & poetry review by writer and somatic creative coach, emily brandt, delivered at each full moon
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pillow rocks & Trilogy (opens the original)
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hello. I didn’t see the full moon yesterday because of so much rain. I hope that you and your homes fared well, if you were in the storm’s path. A huge tree fell inches from my sister’s house, landing between it and a very large rock in her backyard. Her home is on a site settled by one of the earliest colonists in her area of Long Island, on land originally occupied by the Setauket, which they sold to some English people in the 1650s in exchange for tools, kettles, and coats. The buildings on t
H.D.’s Trilogy: ancient history + modern catastrophe (opens the original)
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I hope that you’ll join me for Mentor Meditation: H.D.'s Trilogy. H.D.’s book, written in the midst of war, unearths layers of myth and spiritual knowledge. My intention is that our shared experience, in this currently challenging time, feels communal and nourishing as a creative reading and writing practice (without attachment to any particular outcome), and that you walk away having a deeper relationship to H.D.'s book, and more importantly, to your own layering of myths and spiritua
snake meditation & Becoming Ghost (opens the original)
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hello. On the night of the lunar eclipse, I dreamt of a watermelon growing, the size of a grapefruit, with skin like a snake, and wondered if I should eat it. I let it grow. Before bed, I stood outside and watched the moon almost disappear into an eclipsed sliver. I’m late in sending this, but August is for slowness. I’m glad to get back into making time for writing with you, and to bring some of August’s slow bright movement forward into the final weeks of summer.tiny reviewCathy Che’s se
40 Days: last call! (opens the original)
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40 days Beginning this Wednesday, we gather 7 times on Zoom (launch gathering is 2 hours, all other gatherings are an hour, final Zoom includes a celebratory reading), commit to writing even a tiny bit every day for 40 days, and draft a chapbook, poem series, or long poem. All in good company, with supportive momentum. Sliding scale, and payment plans available. Register today!<a class="image-link image2 is-
relishing details & The Hunger Book (opens the original)
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hello. This summer, I watched most of the matches of the World Cup, as I have since I fell in love with the tournament in 2014, when Argentina lost to Germany. That July I spent hours in bars, cafes, and homes in Argentina and Uruguay watching the matches and having a conversion experience. Me, a person who enjoys watching sports????? Never! But I wept and leapt out of my seat and remained riveted. I honestly couldn’t get enough. I love the details: the momentary stall of the ball, a gesture bet
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