Feb 23, 2022
My Pothos Plant Finally Convinced Me to Write in My Office
Not so long ago, I was a writer who wrote anywhere but at her desk.
Destiny O. Birdsong is a Louisiana-born poet, fiction writer, and essayist whose work has either appeared or is forthcoming in Poets & Writers, The Paris Review Daily, Boston Review, African American Review, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, was published by Tin House Books in October 2020, and was longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection. Her debut novel, Nobody's Magic, is forthcoming from Grand Central in February 2022. She earned both her MFA and PhD from Vanderbilt University.
Not so long ago, I was a writer who wrote anywhere but at her desk.
That afternoon, I learned again something I had known before: that I wasn’t completely straight.
With the help of all of my friends—my best one included—I’ve gotten better at being my whole self.
How do you navigate a healthcare system that wasn’t designed for you?
The details of those poems may be his first inkling that I know what he did.
they ain’t superhuman. ain’t always able / to save the children the men the country or even your silk presses / but whatever they touch. somebody’s good god blesses.
