Archive - my candle burns

these unavoidable books

on literature about motherhood, and "Matrescence Reading List"

May 9 •

April 2024

the only baby in the room

or, the impeded stream is the one that sings!

Apr 24 •

partial eclipse

totality, change, and obscurity nine months postpartum

Apr 9 •

March 2024

a prose poem triptych

Mar 20 •

on the dignity of caregiving

let me lay a warm washcloth on your forehead

Mar 7 •

February 2024

I wish this for you too

not a chocolate-chip muffin recipe

Feb 29 •

or, how to, gently, be prolific // and, a new poetry chapbook!

Feb 12 •

January 2024

mother as flaneur, happy captivity, and exhaustion

Jan 13 •

December 2023

on the aftermath of a book I didn't read, and love in the midst

Dec 29, 2023 •

October 2023

Oct 26, 2023 •

music for moms, slash why am I so obsessed with boygenius?!

Oct 13, 2023 •

81 things about poetry

a new and old list

Oct 4, 2023 •

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