https://www.poetsandprophets.com/comein daily 1.0 2026-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1576707943487-0H2LSLMMLC3AX634L47H/Hero+Image+%28Working%29.jpg Come in ✦ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1629434866628-6W7PV0VUG2J7SAZYI8AV/transprnt+pp.gif Come in ✦ https://www.poetsandprophets.com/weare daily 0.75 2026-03-22 https://www.poetsandprophets.com/makers daily 0.75 2026-03-22 https://www.poetsandprophets.com/you daily 0.75 2026-03-22 https://www.poetsandprophets.com/dreamers daily 0.75 2026-03-22 https://www.poetsandprophets.com/muses daily 0.75 2026-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/193aa29b-7b3c-4ea2-a5c0-d87f7c40079f/Screen+Shot+2026-03-22+at+12.58.48+AM.png muses, https://www.poetsandprophets.com/sanctuary daily 0.75 2020-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1586648125396-98HKP3D84TVMAQDHUN5H/Led+Zeppelin%2C+Jay+Thompson.jpg Sanctuary - Sanctuary On the Ephemeral as Empathy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1586754588305-XTRQPPHY8LC5R7T4IGZ6/Chateau.jpg Sanctuary - This is Kant’s critique of pure reason. This is a modality of generating not only joy but social harmony that has been honored and engaged for generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1586648244268-79B0CI9BI1CWG9MQ6HOK/Rolling+Stones%2C+Kensington+Gore.jpeg Sanctuary The Rolling Stones at the Kensington Gore. Photograph at the top of the essay is of Led Zeppelin, by Jay Thompson. https://www.poetsandprophets.com/god daily 0.75 2020-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1586652204033-W3X4AA1HMDJ60KBWF3CJ/xx.jpg God - God is a pot-bellied beast. A poem by Verônika Shülman https://www.poetsandprophets.com/inconvenience daily 0.75 2020-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1586654817269-K88TVVCN1DA2Y69GB2OQ/Joni+Mitchell Inconvenience - Slow, Children at Play Laurel Canyon, Coronavirus, & the Poetics of Inconvenience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1586655299411-B5UE7RXM6PTKKZ2TDHQX/Canyon Inconvenience - We slept in yurts in the backyard that night. New Year’s Eve of 1999. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1586655513934-C2TZOK12TN701HN03TOU/Only+Child Inconvenience - I exhaled. My blurry, somewhat lonesome only child life had come into clearer vision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1588293486058-Z5XM8LM2MCC9IWQSMZV7/xxxx.jpg Inconvenience - To dream, to wonder, to live. To be slow children, at play. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1586656053179-XY8QFBMEM5YU662JX3BO/Slow4.jpg Inconvenience - Mother Nature is trying to tell us something. We have forsaken her, but like every God, she is tender, merciful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1586656248875-MWH2JBFKRWLB0YW5NQAJ/Godliness Inconvenience - In the bizarre beauty of this imperfect playground, let us remember how to play. All illustrations featured are by the majestic Laurel Canyon native herself, Esmé Shapiro. https://www.poetsandprophets.com/melania daily 0.75 2024-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1586719521929-8GLBYG5A6P8O665A0YRC/melania.png Melania - I thought Melania was going to save us. A poem by Verônika Shülman. https://www.poetsandprophets.com/gamble daily 0.75 2024-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1589505476350-VWYW8VGJWGL4CG7R8XEY/Monique+Mitchell Oh, Flip - In the corner office of his mind. A short story by Verônika Shülman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1589505405485-9QBKN8J8ST19BDZ78MVZ/Blair+Green.jpg Oh, Flip - What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? Collage (left) by Blair Green. Collage (at top) by Monique Mitchell. https://www.poetsandprophets.com/pirates daily 0.75 2020-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1591320148791-XWTWM8M9OCFLI9YAK05U/Monique+Mitchell In a land of pirates, - In a land of pirates, peace is but a myth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1591306333641-LS4XFKK9AMR7P3FQWKQV/Traveler.jpg In a land of pirates, - As peace turned to mayhem this weekend in Los Angeles, I happened to be smack in the center of it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1591320332513-86NSRH22W49QETWC9DPM/00-social-moonlight.jpg In a land of pirates, - None of us are free until all of us are free, wrote the immortal Emma Lazarus over a century ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1591306372965-4EQNOI2JNANXM5VK8EFH/Screen+Shot+2020-06-04+at+1.26.28+PM.png In a land of pirates, - I started college majoring in economics, until I began to study philosophy simultaneously. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1591306405806-UC9I494BCRWC5MDDAJ80/Screen+Shot+2020-06-04+at+1.26.39+PM.png In a land of pirates, - At the same time, the quiet tenderness and semiotic breakdown felt holy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1591311133185-I3NDTHOTXG0AQ6PAGEEN/Screen+Shot+2020-06-04+at+3.51.33+PM.png In a land of pirates, - What if instead of embodying pirates, we learn to embody myths? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1591306435108-YC3DL6UQYJXFRL08LQ7Z/Screen+Shot+2020-06-04+at+1.27.04+PM.png In a land of pirates, - Let us be moved, for the people we love. https://www.poetsandprophets.com/anddreamers daily 0.75 2026-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/9e9fd3eb-2704-425c-9798-340f44d873e5/Screen+Shot+2026-03-22+at+1.05.07+AM.png & dreamers - Idols & Ancestors We acknowledge & honor the Tongva peoples as the Indigenous caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles & Channel Islands). We offer our gratitude & respect to our Honuukvetam (ancestors) & 'eyoohinkem (contemporaries) ✴ https://www.poetsandprophets.com/-dreamers-copy daily 0.75 2026-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dfa9f6a3b945e3fa1fa1ec8/1586621038045-I2PULM24AOHEDRISIJV9/Ren+Hang.png & dreamers (Copy) - Idols & Ancestors We acknowledge & honor the Tongva peoples as the Indigenous caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles & Channel Islands). We offer our gratitude & respect to our Honuukvetam (ancestors) & 'eyoohinkem (contemporaries) ✴