The Power of Poetry! Plus, Eddie Yang

A Monday morning hello.

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Greetings!

I’m writing this on Friday to send on Monday because on Sunday I’m going on a short vaca with my son and won’t be home until Tuesday.

Basically, I’m just trying to avoid having to work when I’m spending time with my kiddo, even though he’ll probably spend most of our time together with headphones on and a tablet in his face because that’s what 12 year olds do.

I hope you had a lovely week since I last wrote. Mine went pretty well. One of the (all too brief) highlights of the week was the stunningly beautiful response to the heartbreaking death of poet Andrea Gibson.

I didn’t know Andrea. I never met them, though I know lots of people who knew them. In fact, in our interview earlier this year, Buddy Wakefield mentioned his “dear friend” Andrea as one of his influences. But man, their work was gorgeous. They wrote the most brilliant and funny and simultaneously devastating poems on life and all its ups and downs. If you want a good cry, check ou…