Hi, friends, I've got some news for you. I've got two books coming out in early 2025.

44 poems on being with each other is a poetry-unbound collection with 44 poems and 44 essays.

There's poems from Jericho Brown and Mary Oliver and Lucille Clifton in there.

And I have a collection of my own poems coming out too. It's called Kitchen Hymns.

You can pre-order these wherever you get your books, online bookshops, or even better, your local bookshop.

There's more info at poetry unbound.org.

Thanks, friends.

My name is Podrig Otuma, and because I don't have children, all of my opinions about parenting

are absolutely fantastic, and all of my opinions about parenting are absolutely fantastic

and all of my fantasy, hypothetical children are perfectly well behaved and we've never had

any kind of difficulty and they transitioned from childhood to teenagerhood to adulthood

perfectly and easily with our relationships intact. Obviously, none of that's true.

But what interests me when I look at parents

is the exhausting way within which,

right from day one, it seems,

you're bringing somebody up and caring for them

with the idea that they'll move away.

And that is a complicated face of love,

a beautiful face of love,

a self-giving face of love,

but one that I never cease to wonder at.

Trespassing with Twins by Danielle Chapman.

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