Lifesaving Poems: Sean O’Brien’s ‘Before’

To safe and almost universal silence I published How Far From Here is Home? (Stride) a few days before Christmas … More

Tired, but

I am tired. Though I write from a place of privilege and of safety, I am tired. Tired of feeling … More

Courage It is in the small things we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. … More

Invitation to Brave Space Together we will create brave space. Because there is no such thing as a “safe … More

We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found … More

The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I … More

On the Edge After your mother dies, you will learn to live on the edge of life, to brace … More

I can’t be alone in experiencing the coronavirus crisis and resulting lockdown as something of an infringement on my … More

The washing never gets done. The furnace never gets heated. Books never get read. Life is never completed. Life … More