Language Is a Skin & Other Textures You Can Rub Between Your Fingers by poet Ryan Stephen Thornton

a lyric essay on poetic practice.

Sep 16 • 

Libby Walkup

 and 

Ryan Stephen Thornton

14

How to speak when you're struggling to speak?

A limited missive of humaning.

Sep 9 • 

Libby Walkup

13

6

“I think a poem is never truly finished. It only briefly completes in the poet’s throat,” with poet Priyanka Jaiprakash.

an interview

Sep 3 • 

Libby Walkup

 and 

The Soul Shelf ⚘ Poetry

13

7

August 2025

And I wonder, is it the love that propels us and our work forward rather than the anxiety, the browbeating, the struggle, and living in the…

a vibration shift: how could leaning into love shift your practice, the way you feel about your work, and how it’s received? Shall we find out together?

Aug 26 • 

Libby Walkup

11

6

"When a poem is 'finished' it feels like a temple bell is rung, vibrating in my chest," poet Jason M. O'Toole.

an interview on process + poems.

Aug 19 • 

Libby Walkup

 and 

Jason O'Toole

12

Are you hard on your creative self too?

a missive in which I find myself in art I thought was too whimsical to be wanted; prob feel the same about myself.

Aug 13 • 

Libby Walkup

12

10

How Paul Varjak Taught Me To Read Again by Melanie Cole

an essay on practice.

Aug 8 • 

Libby Walkup

 and 

Melanie Cole

7

3

July 2025

Where is my mind?

it's lost in a lake somewhere thirty minutes east of here.

Jul 24 • 

Libby Walkup

 and 

Jason O'Toole

18

8

June 2025

the faces of you i never knew

a prose poem

Jun 26 • 

Libby Walkup

7

2

Burning old energy: a practice of letting go.

on practice

Jun 18 • 

Libby Walkup

10

holding on to you by Libby Walkup

a poem

Jun 3 • 

Libby Walkup

15

2

May 2025

Yoga Poetry with Corie Feiner.

a questionnaire on practice, three poems, and a video reading!

May 20 • 

Libby Walkup

 and 

Corie Feiner

18

4