Colorado Poet Laureate • 'You Better Be Lightning' • 'Lord of the Butterflies' https://nitter.cf/t.co/9QAeHLCiGL
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My heart is so full today! Thank you Governor Polis. Thank you Colorado. I’m so excited to learn and grow and create together. ❤️
It brings me so much joy to announce that I will be performing live at the Paramount Theater in Denver on May 30th and May 31st. Presale tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am MDT at andreagibson.com
Self-sacrifice
is knitting a sweater
for the cold shoulder
of someone who doesn’t
notice you are freezing.
Love is a mother
putting her oxygen mask
on first, but holding
her breath until
you have on yours’.
I’m very excited to be teaching poetry to 3rd graders this upcoming week. I’m currently preparing my lesson and am looking for one more age appropriate poem to share. If you have a favorite poem for 9 year olds, please share. Thanks so much everyone!
Those who do the most
growing in this life
are those who offer
the most compassion
to the parts of themselves
that have not yet grown.
“If it scares you, look closer”
Just found these words
in the notes on my phone.
I didn’t write them.
Don’t know who did.
But to whoever did, thank you.
My partner just said something genius and then said, “Hey, even a broken clock is right once a day.”
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It’s a double date with our new friends @andreagibson & @megan_falley—and the news they reveal will shake you.
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll not believe your sweet little ears.
Ep 246. An Unforgettable Double Date with Andrea Gibson & Megan Falley: apple.co/3rwWmEB
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Is anyone else attending the Collective Trauma Summit tomorrow? There will be poetry readings by @adalimon, @andreagibson, and @jerichobrown among others. It's online and free to register: collectivetraumasummit.com/
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Cultural Organizations Summit: Addressing Intolerance
Wed, Oct 4 at 4 pm at @OutBoulder
At our next summit, our panel will discuss ways to protect yourselves and your community against harassment. Welcome by @andreagibson, Colorado's Poet Laurate.
boulderarts.org/events/
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"The soul misses what the body could not let go-what else could hold on that tightly to everything? What else could hear the chain of a swing set fall and fall to its knees? What else could touch a screen door and taste lemonade?" -Tincture
@andreagibson
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I can't gush enough about this book - @megan_falley & @andreagibson thank you it is a gem <3
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In an episode that cuts straight to the soul, this week’s guest @andreagibson joins Ayana in a conversation that asks what it means to truly live.
Listen bit.ly/487skIe
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Colorado's new Poet Laureate is @AndreaGibson, a four-time Denver Grand Slam Champion who focuses on LGBTQIA+ issues, spirituality, feminism, mental health and dismantling oppressive systems --> denvergazette.com/arts-enter… @jaredpolis @Andreagibson @DenverGazette @BobbyLefebre
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Excited to be part of @BooksXAmerica, a film abt a writer who goes to 50 states, reads 50 books, & interviews 50 authors—in 50 days! We loved being the CO bookstore for their interview w/ @andreagibson abt YOU BETTER BE LIGHTNING (@buttonpoetry) Learn more bit.ly/bxa-kick
“Judgement is to confuse someone’s unconscious behavior with who they are, or to project your own unconscious behavior onto someone else.” - Eckhart Tolle
You fear you are not
strong enough to do
the hardest thing
only because you don’t
yet know that doing
the hardest thing
is exactly what will help
you know your strength.
My sister gave me this dog seat for my car but the dogs didn’t like it.
ALT A squirrel, eating a pecan, sits in a blue and white dog seat that is hung on the trunk of a large tree.
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We save each other with our love!
'At the beginning, when you were sick,
we stood at the edge of the vast escarpment,
the sudden drop-off toward what we did not know...
And yet. The hope we took in that cold view cast
far beyond us.'
Minnie Bruce Pratt, from 'Magnified' (2021)
ALT Leslie Feinberg & Minnie Bruce Pratt in Vieques, January 1993, in t-shirts, Leslie's arm around MB shoulder, MB with red hibiscus behind one ear, wild green vegetation behind.