1. The Importance of Community in Fostering and Nurturing your Poetry with Cislyn Smith

In this episode, I got to chat with the lovely Cislyn Smith, writer, poet, and community builder. Of course, community is not the only thing we talked about. Sappho, bubble tea, and hats were among the topics that came up.

Links mentioned:

Find Cislyn and her work online at http://elushae.org/ and https://twitter.com/cislyn
The Dream Foundry's website and Discord community: https://dreamfoundry.org/ and https://discord.gg/GyergQ6cXG
Find out more about Joni Mitchell in this amazing documentary on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T95l3_eai88
Or listen to Shell Silverstein reading a poem of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNiaYHZme_U
Sweetbitter: a history podcast focused mainly on queer women. In their first season, they not only discussed Sappho and her work, but brought it back to life as she originally intended it: through music. This is definitely worth a binge. https://sweetbitterpodcast.com/

For full episode notes, including links to pieces by Cislyn, and the prompt of the month, visit https://lookingglasspoets.wordpress.com/2021/08/01/cislyn-smith/.

Until next time,

Later, lookingglass travellers!

Theme music: Wonderland by Alexander Nakarada (serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License