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writer. poet. founder/editor of @therebis.com, an annual print anthology celebrating tarot, art & creative writing. besides #tarot, mostly #poetry, the cosmos, music, eroticism & parenting a witchy child Berkeley, CA hannaheve.substack.com
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these are the types of cryptic notes I find after my seven year old daughter has a playdate

honored to have my poem featured in @mayacpopa.bsky.social's "poems for your weekend" round-up today, alongside so many incredible writers! open.substack.com/pub/mayacpop...

I've been talking to folks about imagination and how deeply critical it will be over the next few years. imagination as a form of survival. how do we get better at imagining possibility? this convo with @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social is a good starting point open.spotify.com/episode/4ySj...

couldn't watch that footage of the rare black anglerfish swimming towards the ocean's surface without writing a poem about it.

my kid's doing a report on cheetahs so we're discussing research. she suggested observation but that's tricky here. she said libraries & books. I said interviewing experts (former journalism major). the internet is obvious. "but NOT AI!" she shouted. "I DO NOT TRUST ROBOTS!" kids know what's up.

the way being alive is both abundance and abyss

today's portal 🪞

Brian McInerney

a devastating poem, devastatingly beautiful analysis of it, and devastatingly accurate reflection on these times we stay alive in ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/camille-ra...

daughter made "fairies for all seasons" including winter, spring, fall, beach/summer, and... ghost fairy. "for the season of death, obviously."

"Suddenly— You tell me there is light everywhere, that my eyes are two rings of testimony, that we are always beginning."

"Your stem is dripping and I want to drink you in" 🥀🥀🥀

"I find myself asking: What isn’t love? What isn’t eros?" @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social offers some commentary on a growing body of work related to desire, eroticism, longing, intimacy, and transformative relationship dynamics beyond traditional monogamy. open.substack.com/pub/tracycla...

do you want to go storm chasing with me? "it can be violent / if you want violent / soft / if you want soft" #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity

3 yrs ago I went on a solo retreat to build out a plan for a tarot lit mag. since then @therebis.com has published 3 issues w/ work from 60+ writers & artists. we are in 12 stores in the US and have international distribution! so grateful for this journey. here's my original editorial plan.

"I try to meditate even though I'd rather scream . Sometimes, I scream. I believe people who tell me they've seen ghosts. I read poetry. I defer to mystery. I pray to anything that will listen." —Joy Sullivan

it's pouring rain and my daughter is outside saving earthworms on the sidewalk by picking them up and putting them back in the dirt so people don't step on them. at this point I'd trust children to run this country better than the grownups in charge.

loving the new poetry collection "saint of" by @lisamariebasile.bsky.social

revisiting this short essay I wrote on chaos and creation and awe and rage and our shrinking moon (it's true, its core is cooling, its surface is shriveling) open.substack.com/pub/hannahev...

overheard my seven year old, in a whisper, saying to herself "the quieter a leopard can kill the more successful they are" as she got dressed this morning. always an inspiration. happy full moon in leo everyone

those who live erotically are in an alchemical relationship with being here now. they appear magnetically charged because they’re unconditionally present.

not many people are aware that the NEA art grants program now requires compliance with *all* executive orders, which includes no promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and no discourse of trans rights....

thanks @tupelopress.bsky.social for setting an example & articulating your thoughts on the NEA's new position for art grants. would love to see more orgs speaking out. a handful of comments on @beckyltuch.bsky.social's recent post but not nearly enough. litmagnews.substack.com/p/q-how-will...

the first two paragraphs of my poem, "the grief survey," which phrases from 235 responses to "Experiences of Grief: A Phenomenological Survey" by @griefyork.bsky.social weaving this together was a spiritual experience. read the whole thing on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/hannahev...

saw this poem in the comments of @mayacpopa.bsky.social's latest newsletter. absolutely beautiful.

i’m going to live freely and feel deeply and flood my community with kindness and connection. we must fight in many ways, but we cannot forget the soft ones.

sat down to work on a poetry class assignment and couldn't stop thinking about portals so this is what I wrote

continue to make things, continue to learn things, continue to share knowledge, continue to share mystery, continue to share being

here's a portal I found this morning. I want to see your portals too. let's find all the portals and thresholds, the vortexes and doorways.

This poem has me lost for words 💔 It captures how grief viscerally fixes us in the present moment, and how we rely on metaphor to make sense of a world in which we no longer know how to live.

Hannah Levy's poem is written using the first-person testimonies gathered in our Grief Survey. The poem captures beautifully the volatility and variability of the experience of grief. Thanks so much @hannaheve.com. The survey is here: www.griefyork.com/survey

woke up to this from @hannaheve.com + felt knocked over by a wave 🌊 in the very best way "I live minute by minute / count every day / keep busy / I keep busy / time seems endless / has no meaning / is passing so quickly / hangs heavy / certainly seems to gallop"

I wrote a poem using words and phrases lifted from 235 anonymous freeform responses to @griefyork.bsky.social's survey titled "Experiences of Grief: A Phenomenological Survey" conducted on 2020 by researchers at the University of York. hannaheve.substack.com/p/the-grief-...