Kelly Fordon

"Let's Deconstruct a Story" featuring Ananda Lima Let's read "Antropófaga"

"Let's Deconstruct a Story" featuring Ananda Lima coming up this month! #anandalima #shortstories #fiction #creativewriting

What Trammels the Heart Anyone who has seen the film Spotlight will find a powerful poetic companion in this poetry collection. What Trammels the Heart casts new light on the clerg...

Huge congrats to Poetry School student Kelly Fordon on her new collection What Trammels the Heart, out soon with SFA Press!
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My Personal Favorite with Joy Gaines-Friedler A Poetry Blog

Loved having Joy Gaines-Friedler on the blog.

Join us on Let's Deconstruct a Story for some deep dives into stories by Maura Stanton, Christie Hodgen and more. letsdeconstructastory.substack.com/p/sea-fairie...

Make your own story in life

Walz: "I think we have to assume the very worst in everything this administration does, and we need to prepare for it."

Thanks!

This is disgraceful and un-American. The Trump administration defended its removal of articles highlighting the achievements of minority service members, including Navajo code talkers, Marines at Iwo Jima, and famed Black baseball player Jackie Robinson.

YouTube video by Katie Couric Why Trump’s Assault on Free Speech, Including Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, Is Complete Hypocrisy

Scary times. Remain vigilant.

Free Mahmoud Khalil.

Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.

The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...

Desiree Cooper at Book Suey on March 14th! with your hosts Kelly Fordon and Elijah Sparkman

Desiree Cooper will be at Book Suey in Hamtramck, MI on March 14th! Even if you can't make the live recording, you can read the stories and tune into the podcast later this month :)

Green had the only sane reaction.

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

Not my most eloquent letter, but utterly sincere....

We need the force with us right about now. Shocked and horrified by DT and JD as well. Things are looking bleak. #shameonus

Special Vermont Resistance edition Lucy Welch, a hero for the moment.

How is it that, despite all the money they’ve amassed in donations, @democrats.org don’t seem to have anyone as good at messaging as Lucy Welch, the snow reporter for Sugarbush?

Seriously. Read her message, take inspiration, and wonder why hardly anybody outside the Squad can do the same.

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist.

He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

Welcome to the Oval Office: President Zalensky!
So great to have you here in the USA!
What’s that? Did you just speak, Zalensky? Did you just say something JD and me don’t want to hear?
Have you even said thank you, Zalensky?

Rep Tom Suozzi: “Very simple. Putin is a dictator. Zelenskyy is not.” What’s so hard to understand about that?

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

I've taken this class with Emily and hghly recommend it. Plus Vievee Francis is visiting this time!! #detroitpoets #emilysernaker

Erasure. Poetry has the capacity to be so much more than just beautiful.

Poets, more ideas for resistance.

This is terrific. Please read it. Tomorrow, when the grocery store checker asks me how I am, I’m going to tell her I’m worried, and I’m going to tell her why.

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.