I've been sick for months and the only salve is poetry

Meaning-making, upcoming events, and other book things you'll want to know about

Mar 13 • Alexandra McKay

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February 2026

Feelings in the Right / Wrong Places

On reading Baldwin and taking narrative cues from emotional dissonance

Feb 11 • Alexandra McKay

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January 2026

Privacy, devaluation, and death

Cloudgazing gets ugly

Jan 22 • Alexandra McKay

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December 2025

Preparations for a Future Self

Who doesn't exist until they do, edited for then-current use

Dec 17, 2025 • Alexandra McKay

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July 2025

Dogs are dogs everywhere

Mexico City, breathing, walking, writing

Jul 31, 2025 • Alexandra McKay

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June 2025

Islands of Certainty

How it feels to swim between them and when to try to dock

Jun 4, 2025 • Alexandra McKay

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May 2025

Writing Diary 07 | Hope delayed, May 5th

Being sick and negotiating with existential responsibility

May 7, 2025 • Alexandra McKay

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You Have to Believe In Time

It's the only thing that threads how our lives play out

May 1, 2025 • Alexandra McKay

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March 2025

🎧 Brain Space For One

And what about communal memory?

Mar 28, 2025 • Alexandra McKay

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Moving Outward From Within

Connecting to the larger narrative - the throughline - for something more than fact

Mar 19, 2025 • Alexandra McKay

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February 2025

Writing Diary 06 | Bodily resistance, February 10th-13th

How trauma shapeshifts in the body and on the page

Feb 14, 2025 • Alexandra McKay

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January 2025

How Do You Embody Yourself?

The endless possibility of you might also mean you're constantly adapting

Jan 13, 2025 • Alexandra McKay

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