Carol Dorf

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Thank you to The Dodge for spotlighting my poem, "Lessons in Figuration!"

Today we're spotlighting "Lessons in Figuration," one of two poems written by @ifkexists.bsky.social and featured in our Summer 2025 Issue, OUT NOW at the link in our bio!

I definitely get this -- The problem is that after child-rearing and the work you do to stay in the black, you are 20 to 25 years older. I finally got to go to a wonderful residency last fall, but then health problems and caregiving interrupted my momentum. Things are better now, so, I'll see . . .

Carol Dorf — Poemeleon

poemeleon.me/carol-dorf
Here's one

Wow -- I had forgotten I wrote the note -- thanks for reposting it and the prose poem!

New Poems in the Dodge!
www.thedodgemag.com/caroldorf1

Where is the link to a peer-reviewed article?

There are a number of irl friends and writer friends I keep in touch with on FB/Instagram.

So beautiful!

beautiful poem!

YouTube video by Sarah Cooper The History of Wealth Throughout History

youtu.be/9cJ1IZsp750?...

We've been enjoying the golden shovels in Maria Zoccola’s HELEN OF TROY, 1993, and this one from fellow #ExpoContributor @ifkexists.bsky.social is a little gem!

...now diving into this issue full of them from @tinywrenlit.bsky.social!

Sorry for the confusion.

Ann Fisher-Wirth's fulbright to go to Turkey and talk about eco-poetry was rescinded. Maybe you could carry one of her eco-poetry anthologies, or one of her books.
(She also grew up in the East Bay, and graduated from BHS.)

My collaboration with Athena Kildegaard is up in @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social -- aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref...

Will Landau's poem is in Painted Bride Quarterly!

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I used the NYT recipe for vegan chocolate chip cookies -- it was good but kind of labor intensive.
1cup/ creamy peanut butter
¾( cup/light brown sugar
1 mashed large banana
½teaspoon fine salt
1teaspoon baking soda
½cup all-purpose flour
1cup/vegan chocolate chips
Stir together in that order

Yes!

Not good -- there was a press that tried to do that to the writers in an anthology -- fortunately another press picked up the anthology.

Carol Dorf — Poemeleon

poemeleon.me/carol-dorf
Here's one

This is a very tiny golden shovel

Thank you to the editors of Tiny Wren!

It's like entering a lottery

Cartoon image of Donald tRump grabbing the Statue of Liberty by her lady parts.

Poem by my FB friend & fellow poet Deborah Miranda. Myth America! She said everyone is welcome to share it.

#PoetsofBlueSky #poetry #poem #Resistance

An issue of a magazine I was in at about that age was in a display case at a museum. Weird to be historic.

A Columbia professor’s message to his fellow Jewish faculty members. [As news broke last Friday of the Trump administration’s plan to revoke $400 million dollars of research funding to Columbia University, filmmaker and Columbia professor James Schamus posted the fo…

lithub.com/a-columbia-p...

I'm confused -- are subs open?

Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.