• Hi! This month we are starting The Poems of Octavio Paz in our Fable Book Club. It’s on the longer side for collections, which I’m pretty excited about. In April, we had read The River in the Belly, which was a fascinating collection by Fiston Mwanza Mujila. Every poem is titled “Solitude” and given a

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  • Seapups

    From Shapeshifting

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  • Thoughts on ending DEI

    I don’t know about anyone else, but this DEI thing is rather irritating for me. Nevermind that even erasing someone’s name from an archive doesn’t actually erase what they did. Nevermind that it will be dug back up in the future and brought back to prominence. It’s just so much work back and forth. I

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  • Book Signing Coming up!

    Book Signing Coming up!

    Yay and yikes I loved writing my book. It was emotional but rewarding. Finding a publishing home for it went better than I had anticipated. The editing and launching phases were uneventful on the whole. Promoting has been a whole other hurdle. I’m not upset about it and I am not complaining. I just never

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  • Little Poems Everywhere

    My last command in the Navy was kind of a disaster but it had moments that I still smile about. I was stationed with several people I adored, several I couldn’t stand to be around, and many I was indifferent to. Among those I adored was Rachel. Rachel was not well liked by most people.

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