Katryn Broadoak is a poet, mother, and breast cancer survivor whose life has carried her across five countries and countless inner landscapes. She speaks English and French (and a little Spanish if you’re patient). A lifelong seeker, she writes from the space between faith and freedom. Once steeped in organised religion, her path has evolved into something more eclectic and earth-centered, rooted in reverence for what’s real and unseen alike (with a bit of a penchant for casual blasphemy from time to time). Her poetry is an offering for anyone who’s ever felt lost — a lantern to light the way toward the other side of something hard, something holy, or both.

Artists and writers are the explorers of our souls. They navigate our inner landscapes and delve into the turbulence of our emotions, which are shaped by the world around us—its politics, events, and social changes. Through their work, we gain insight into ourselves and our place within these contexts.

Turning fragility into form, silence into art or poetry, darkness into light, by supporting an artist or poet in the most human sense requires risk and acknowledgment—a civic duty that demands our time in a world that devours everything with haste and judgment, seldom pausing for reflection.

Poets:

1. Lindsey Hull
2. Rachel Anne Morris
3. Mark Fryburg
4. Magge Dillow

Renee Good, 37 was fatally shot by an Ice Agent on January 7th in Minneapolis after dropping off her 6 year old son to school. She described herself as a "poet and writer and wife and mom."

Good’s death occurred at a time when U.S. Pres.Trump ordered some 2,000 ICE officers to be sent to Minneapolis as part of what an administration official called the “largest immigration operation ever.

In the days after Good’s death, thousands of people participated in protests against ICE in Minnesota and around the country.

Good studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia and was awarded the school’s poetry prize in 2020. She won a 2020 Academy of American Poets University and College Prize, one of the top awards in the nation, for On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs.

GUEST POETS;

Jane Goette, An Old Song
Jessica Mardian, A little over a week after January 7th
Mark Fryburg, QUOTES
Erica Joiner,What They Have Wrought
Anne Deaton, Renee Good Has Gone to Wake the Dead…
Katryn Broadoak, Murdered Good

Skip Brown-(reading;) On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pig by Renée Nicole Macklin Good