Kalo Mina! Happy first day of May!! May this month be full of reading in the park, adventuring in foreign lands, and shedding layers, both literally and metaphorically.
Yiasou!
Stephanie Nikolopoulos is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and speaker based in New York City.
She is the coauthor, with Paul Maher Jr., of "Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road.'"
You can email her at stephanie_701 {@} yahoo.com
The other day someone suggested to me that I could relax and enjoy my day off by writing. I groaned. Audibly. I love writing. It is a significant part of my identity. I spend a good portion of my waking hours writing and editing both to put food on the table and for my own satisfaction. Even when it comes to socializing, I love getting together with other writers and talking about our craft and working together in silence at the library. But writing is work. It can be frustrating and draining, both on a craft level and on an emotional or spiritual level when you’re writing something personal.
“KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature” makes the pupils dilate. Big and bright and bold, the New York Botanical Garden art show invites us to play, but in so doing reveals something about ourselves and the world around us. Yayoi Kusama helps us to see the extraordinary, the wonder that is all around us.
I read that 26 of the kids featured in this video were found. It isn’t all happy news though: some had been murdered, and some were forced to return to bad home situations.
Rode the train out to the end of the line….
A few years ago I took an inspiring writing workshop taught by Kamilah Aisha Moon at the Hobart Festival of Women Writers, where a poetry prompt led me to begin writing this poem. I am pleased that it’s now come full circle, having found a home in the Hobart Festival of Women Writers’ literary journal “Now 2.” “The Life Vest” is a poem close to my heart, and I’m so thankful that I get to share it with you. Link in bio.
Can wildflowers be cultivated?
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