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Tadpoles teach us in Kern’s ‘Real Sugar’

tadpoles swimming

Stories for those who feel ‘fragile about frogs’. We can grieve “all the frogs that aren’t.” Some of our stories going forward, though, have to be about the frogs that are. Which will those be?

How we’re here now: Poems of California

An old-fashioned car in the California desert. Black-and-white photo. Image from Tess Taylor's poetry book Last West.

Poems in ‘Rift Zone’ and ‘Last West’. We know in our bones what being is. Because we are. ‘To be’ is to exist in a place, to grow, to break off, to feel how this ties us to past and future.