7 Poems for Grief
“I return to these poems in times of grief because seldom do you find poetry that so explicitly demands the reader consider body / mind dualism.”
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A Meditation on Grief
“Everybody is wrong about grief, and I’m right, and let me tell you why. Grief is easy. It’s limbic, glandular. Unfortunately, people can’t seem to help themselves from complicating.”
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The Gatekeeping System
“As I wrestle with the facts of my situation and of any other trans person…specifically with the medical establishment’s obstinate refusal to reexamine the harmful practice of gatekeeping, I wonder if the refusal comes not after reasoned principal, but rather out of a fundamental distrust of the validity of trans peoples’, and all marginalized people’s, narratives.”
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Tattoos, Censorship, and Why Art Matters
Columnist Woody Woodger explores the poetic artifact of tattoos as a mode of self-expression. “What each tattoo is expressing is not really the interesting aesthetic value that’s being communicated. Rather, what is interesting about a tattooed body in public is that … art has consequences.”
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Crystal Healing
Columnist Woody Woodger explores the wealthy crystal healing industry – what is it? who is it for – through the lens of Ross Gay’s poem, “To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian.”
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