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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · Mar 12

“As a person who sticks to the recipe, step by step, exact measurements and all, I appreciate how today’s poem lifts up the magic of feeling and improvisation, of putting one’s whole body into a task.”

Read “Ferment” by @monicaricopoet.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iqbnNi

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An excerpt of the poem “Ferment” by Monica Rico

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Monica Rico @monicaricopoet.bsky.social · Mar 12

Thank you Major Jackson and The Slowdown for featuring Ferment as an encore episode. #baking #bread #culinaryschool #poetry #focus #slowdown
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[encore] 1078: Ferment by Monica Rico

Today’s poem is Ferment by Monica Rico.

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · Mar 9

The Mercury 13 were thirteen American women who in 1959-60 took part in a privately funded research program run by physician William Randolph Lovelace II, a private contractor to #NASA, which aimed to test and screen the women for spaceflight #InternationalWomensDay

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Mercury 13 - Wikipedia

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NPR @npr.org · Feb 26

Is there a woman who has impacted your life in a profound way? NPR wants to hear your story.

For Women's History Month, NPR wants to know who has made an impact in your life

Is there a woman who has impacted your life in a profound way? NPR wants to hear your story.

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Monica Rico @monicaricopoet.bsky.social · Feb 26

New poems up at Xican@ Poetry Daily. #poetry #poems #cancer #survival
#treatment

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Monica Rico

Monica Rico is a Mexican American CantoMundo Fellow, Macondista, and the author of PINION, winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry selected by Kaveh Akbar. She holds an MFA from the Univ…

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Cody Walker @cody-walker.bsky.social · Feb 24

Happy to announce our 2025 Bear River Writers' Conference faculty! Hope to see some of you in Northern Michigan in late August . . .

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Monica Rico @monicaricopoet.bsky.social · Feb 1

Mark your calendars for February 22nd at Book Beat
#annecarson
#poetry
#detroit

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February 22: Anne Carson, Dunya Mikhail, and More - The Backroom

Saturday, February 22 at 6:30 join us at Book Beat for a poetry reading featuring Anne Carson, Dunya Mikhail, Cameron McLeod Martin, Monica Rico, and Stephanie Glazier. Sunday, February 22 from 6-9 pm...

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Monica Rico @monicaricopoet.bsky.social · Feb 1

Happy #blackhistorymonth
Here is one of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets. #goingtomars #nikkigiovanni
#poetry

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Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (We’re Going to Mars)

Poet Nikki Giovanni reminds us that we can learn from the past to imagine how we might construct our shared destiny on this planet—and on others.

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Monica Rico @monicaricopoet.bsky.social · Jan 26

Another poem from last year. #poems #paulaabdul

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This Forever - Tahoma Literary Review

The thing is thisThe yellow roses never truly Opened and now don’t know what to do with themHang them upside down, a bell of rigor mortis with what scent

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Monica Rico @monicaricopoet.bsky.social · Jan 25

Two more newish poems from #likeafield
#poetry #poems #illness #cancer #poet #survival

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Monica Rico - Two poems

a seasonal journal of art & poetry

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Monica Rico @monicaricopoet.bsky.social · Jan 24

A poem of mine from not too long ago. #poetry #poem #cancer #surviving #katebush

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RUNNING UP THAT HILL (A DEAL WITH GOD)

It claws it doesn’t begin with an itch a single hurt a pointed branch me and my fingertips ...

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · Jan 22

52 years ago, Roe v. Wade secured the reproductive rights women fought for. In 2022, Dobbs overturned it & 22 states restricted our freedoms.

2 days ago, Trump took down reproductiverights.gov. But @reprocaucus.bsky.social will continue to share abortion resources. Your body, your choice!

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