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This Day 11 of my 1000-Day MFA, a DIY education project I’ve undertaken that I learned about from writer Shaunta Grimes. You can read more about how I’m engaging with it here. By the way, there might be no rhyme or reason to how I choose the poems, essays, and short stories. Or they might have a theme. But basically, I just throw my net out to the world, and read whatever I catch.
Poem: Holy Thank You for Not
by Megan Falley
Essay: A Good Enough Death
by Katy Butler
Short Story: Homeland
by Barbara Kingsolver
Holy Thank You for Not
To truly appreciate this poem you must hear it. It’s probably every bit as great when you read it — but please treat yourself to this stellar performance of it by its author, Megan Falley. It’s hard to quantify the impact this reading had on me. I have been there, in the territory she inhabits with this poem. It’s a story I will tell one day, when I write the memoir. One of the many great lines from this Falley poem is,
There are so many ways to die. Most of them you can do while living.
