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The Strange People

By Louise Erdrich
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In this poem, Louise Erdrich pays tribute to the mysticism of the antelope and beliefs of their spiritual significance.

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Ledger: Poems

Ledger's pages hold the most important work yet by Jane Hirshfield, one of our most celebrated contemporary poets. From the already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance ("Let them not say: we did not see it.

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Jane Hirshfield
2024
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Why Is It Hard to Get Into a Writing Flow? —Matthew Kalil

In this Film Courage video interview, Screenwriter/Instructor and The Three Wells of Screenwriting Author Matthew Kalil on Why Is It Hard to Get Into a Writing Flow?

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2020
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Holy Magic

Priscilla Long contains multitudes: scientific writer, art scholar, social activist, historical enthusiast, and well-published poet.

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Priscilla Long
2020
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Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection

This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. These poets, from all walks of life, and from all over America, prove to us the possibility of creating in our lives what Dr.

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James Crews, Ted Kooser
2019
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Love’s Ripening: Rumi on the Heart’s Journey

Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets.

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Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski
2024
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The Rumi Daybook: 365 Poems and Teachings from the Beloved Sufi Master

"My heart wandered through the world constantly seeking after my cure, but the sweet and delicious water of life had to break through the granite of my heart." When the words of Rumi enter your heart, something softens, breaks, and is subtly reborn.

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Kabir Helmiski, Camille Helminski
2011
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Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives

This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer identities, showcasing new, emerging and established queer and trans writers from around the world.

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Miguel M. Morales (editor), Bruce Owens Grimm (editor), Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini (editor)
2024
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How to Balance Being Native American and Queer

Zachariah George is a twenty-five-year-old Native American living in the rural outcrop of White Rock, New Mexico. Going by the moniker Mr.

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2020
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What Does “Two-Spirit” Mean? | InQueery | them.

Geo Neptune explores the history of the term “Two-Spirit” and who it pertains to. Does it mean two genders? Can anyone use it to describe themselves? InQueery is the series that takes a deeper look at the meaning, context, and history of LGBTQ+ vocabulary and culture.

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2018
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Saeed Jones - Drag

Saeed Jones, reading from his book, "Prelude to Bruise", at Art Share LA.

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Saeed Jones
2015
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