Welcome to Open Sorcery - Clickbait’s open source collaborative poem-writing series. As we all know, poetry is magic. In the interest of creating some collective magic, we will be writing a new poem together each week using Google Docs!
5 Creative Tips To Rock Your Virtual First Date
Orchestrating a successful first date during a global pandemic is tough. Ok — to do it really right is darn near IMPOSSIBLE. And when you add the fact that the only way to meet comfortably for many people is through computer screens - conducted through the vast ethereal space that is the internet - it’s easy to feel disconnected. Here are some fun ways to take your virtual first date to the next level, brought to you by The Poetry Society Of New York.
The Cat Lifts Her Leg and Sees the First Leaf of Fall
We Tasted Every Drop of Water in East River
Why Trains Are Destroying America
Some Bizarre Lamp Facts You Need to Know
Guide To Write a Post-Apocalypse Postcard
Emotion Dies Every Minute
9 Reasons You Can Blame the Recession on Magic
HOW TO QUIT YOUR DAY JOB AND FOCUS ON CONGRESS
ASK YOUR DOCTOR WHAT MILLENNIALS REALLY THINK ABOUT SORCERY
Relationships and Dating in the 21st Century
Kim Addonizio Waxes Poetic With Us
Pride Began As a Protest: Remembering Marsha P. Johnson
As we moved into June, this year we are entering the Pride Month in a slightly different way. The country is amid the uprising over George Floyd’s death, racism, and violence. Yet, the spirit and the determination of the people remain the same. We are going through a transformative movement, just like how the LGBTQ patrons and community finally started to rebel on the night of June 28th, 1969. We should remember that our active voices and actions are needed in these moments, and the Pride celebration wouldn’t exist without protests.
#BlackLivesMatter: Guide to 6 Black Poets Who Have Given Me Strength
In one of the essays of Joseph Brodsky, he declared that at certain periods of history, it might be only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise couldn't be retained by the mind. In a moment like this, when sounds of sirens, voices for justice, cries of victims drum in our ears all at once, I believe alongside donating and speaking up, another thing we could do is to understand…
Try This Rain Meditation For Spring Showers
When I think of New York, I think of rain. It’s chasing a year since I spent time in the city working at The New York City Poetry Festival and still my freshest memories are of falling water. I can smell the dank subway on my way home from Central Park’s deep puddles; from a deli doorway on a quiet street I watched the city sink.
Travel Around the World During Self-Quarantine
As the pandemic ravages the world, my plans to travel to Seattle, Wyoming, Austin, as well as back to Asia seem to have been postponed indefinitely. Looking back the past month, I realize that the only trip I’ve made was a 10 minute walk to the closest grocery store. Yet, within that 10 minute, I found I was feeling upset about not just the prospect of not being able to travel, but also I miss the “city” so much -- the New York bustling with life, news and videos of events happening all over the world.
These Poets Went Online and You’ll Never Guess What They Did
Staying at home was alright at first. There was writing to catch up on, books to read, pets to keep us company, and a bountiful selection of movies to watch. Everything seemed good to go once we settled into it. Plus, we already had practiced social distancing as teenagers social distancing from our parents. But as time went on, this independence morphed into feelings of boredom and loneliness, not to mention it might have been time to brush our teeth.
