Jean Voneman Mikhail

Rachel, I listen to your podcast “Commonplace,” and I sincerely love it. I just heard your most recent episode (I am still in the process of listening to it) and I just wanted to tell you that I’m thinking of you and your son and sending you best wishes and hope for his recovery.

White House Makes Cruel Valentine's Day Joke On Social Media The anti-immigrant take on "roses are red / violets are blue" drew swift rebukes.

A hole

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My heart…

Love this…

This is one way to send letters to government officials to voice your concerns. Emails are free. Sending mail will cost you postage, but you just tell the bot or whatever it is what to write, and it will take care of the sending.

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I am on the elliptical, so I cut some of this off, but you can probably fill in the black and guess how well this would go!

Fox News broadcasters are complaining about Selena Gomez and her public outcry over the deportation of undocumented immigrants. They say, “I don’t see her crying over Laken Riley’s murder.” Hello, it’s not a contest. Compassion is compassion.

I love when a poem invites me back in to read it again and again and gain more of the meaning. This is such a poem. This poem has such a unique narrative and captivating images.

A shocking Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging | CNN Business US stocks were set for a steep selloff Monday morning after a surprise advancement from a Chinese artificial intelligence company, DeepSeek, threatened the aura of invincibility surrounding America’s ...

Things just keep getting more interesting…and complicated in not so good ways.

www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/t... A shocking Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging

Trump ends Fauci's security detail, says he'd feel no responsibility if he was harmed Fauci is the latest in a string of former Trump aides-turned-critics to see their federal protection canceled.

For a guy who just got shot in the ear, Trump is stunningly un-empathetic.

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I have been listening to a lot of Rachel Zucker’s podcast entitled “Commonplace,” which features poets, primarily. So far, every podcast has had some golden nugget of truth for me. I highly recommend listening to them.

Hello, these people assaulted police. I guess that’s ok for the right reason?

Trump commutes sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders as he pardons over 1,000 January 6 US Capitol rioters | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

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Read and weep…

I see la la lay and I like it

Mother who lost mentally ill addicted son: The system is ‘broken’ | CNN A woman who lost her son says dramatic improvements are needed to treat people who battle mental illness and drug addiction.

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Happy New Year, everyone!

I am very happy to have three or my poems published in Verse Virtual. Thanks to the editor, Jim Lewis. BTW, Happy New Year, everyone!

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This poem has what one of my old poetry profs used to call “psychic weight,” which i guess is a term first mentioned by Robert Bly. I had to look that up again just now.

Parallels: A Pseudo Cento by Jean Voneman Mikhail Parallels: A Pseudo Cento           Texts between a son struggling           with addiction and h…

Thanks to editors Mark Danowsky and Louisa Schnaithmann for publishing my poem in One Art: A Journal of Poetry. I really appreciate these editors for providing such fantastic resources for writers, and for giving some air time to this difficult topic.

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I miss my son. He struggles and fades in and out of our lives. This is a picture of him long ago. My beautiful boy.

I miss my son.

I love Krishna Das!

NVN Wednesday... Affirmations: 2 Poems "We Love Gender-Affirming Care" by Cecil Morris and "Girly Boy" by Jean Voneman Mikhail

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I am so excited to read this. When an introduction makes your fingertips tingle as you flip the pages, and you sweat yourself into a cry at 8 a.m., you know you’re in for something! 😅

Sorry I missed it 😫