Laura Adrienne Brady // Wren Music

“I felt cast out of the whirring, capitalist pace of life, as well as the typical pathways to career success and financial stability. Initially, this felt like a great injustice. With time, I’ve come to see the casting out as a deeply inconvenient blessing.”

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Fabulous defeat for the fascists!

Happy Day of Love & Friendship, my dears. Here’s the sap-piest thing 😂 I’ve ever written, and one of my songs that perhaps translates best to the page, from my album PINK STONE.

(Not into monarchies, btw, unless they involve elves or riparian kingdoms).

Send this to someone you’d get muddy for 🥵

An excerpt from The Pink Stone Companion Book, an extended lyric book to my folk album Pink Stone: Songs from Moose Lodge. This is one of five vignettes that weave around my own story, creatively re-telling the Methow River’s journey to the sea. The watercolor is by Anna Briggs, book illustrator.

Build Your Poetry Manuscript with KMA Episode 2: Your Heartbreak Is Not Enough YouTube video by KMA Sullivan

@kmasullivan.bsky.social just posted Build Your Poetry Manuscript with KMA Episode 2: Your Heartbreak Is Not Enough. She shares some thoughts on the pitfalls that can come with incorporating the losses and injuries of your life into your poetry and how to push past them.

Don’t Write Every Day: 3 Things to Do Instead to Finish Your Book | Jane Friedman It’s tempting to agonize over the best way to get the words down, but all that matters is to choose a project, write it, and ask for support.

“There are plenty of “real jobs” that operate on the model of “have a baseline of skill and resources and then do it all at the last minute under pressure.” Surgeon. Firefighter. Pilot. And in my case (and maybe yours), Writer.”

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A few snippets from my rejected Modern Love essay in Hobart. The week it was published, the elk showed up 😂

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ANALYSIS: Why are B.C. kids sick all the time? Health experts explain The consequences of repeated COVID-19 infections are now becoming clear in B.C., across Canada and around the world

Enough with the immunity debt propaganda. The science is beyond clear that C-19 infections weaken the immune system and are disabling children and adults at an alarming rate. We need systemic, clean air solutions put into place, not more heads in the sand.

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I Seek Healing in the Usual Places - Cutleaf Journal I can conserve words as I once warmed crystals, a single flake upon the valley of my tongue

Excited to have four poems out in Cutleaf from my in-progress manuscript exploring chronic illness and cultural recovery through an old Celtic myth.

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