Oh my god the zine fest is today. I am pretty excited, and as you can also see, I am staying up "late" once again.

in the glint of an eye....

Share your stories of mental health/illness, experiences with the mental health industry, tools for individual and community healing, and dreams of liberation. Bring songs, poems, stories, friends.

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Portland, Oregon

This event is the kick-off for a new icarus project, a weekly radical mental support group. If you're interested in being part of that but can't make this event, e-mail River at gaias.eye@gmail.com or Julia at julia.smedley2@gmail.com

Art: Christy. C. Road

As my first blog entry, I'm posting my two most recent poems (and the only submissions to literary magazine, so far...

this poem deals with potentially upsetting topics; read with care.

inspired by a line from a tara hardy poem (being a femme means finding the map that your grandmothers left you for how to survive and then wearing it) and the ensuing revelation that one cannot have a map when the past terrain has been disavowed.

On the evening of November 5th at Small World Coffee in Princeton, NJ, The Icarus Project’s Mad Gifts Art Show debuted. It proved an environment akin to the community from which it was borne: namely, an open, diverse, and creatively warm group of people. Many came specifically to support Icarus and see Mad Gifts – traveling from New York, Massachusetts, Philadelphia and other surrounding Northeastern areas – but the event also garnered locals who stumbled into the evening – sidetracked by the warm energy after acquiring their usual caffeine fix. The evening included spoken word, live music, and of course the perusing of the many inspired pieces adorning the café’s walls.