Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild

You're receiving this email because you are a DailyGood subscriber. Trouble Viewing? On a mobile? Just click here. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe. June 6, 2022 a project of ServiceSpace Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. - June Jordan - Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild When Kathy Fish was asked, in 2017, to contribute to the online journal, Jellyfish Review, she had a piece all cued up-- but then something happened in Las Vegas, that shook the nation, and Fish found herself writing a different piece for the platform instead. It went viral. It was titled, "Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild." In Fish's words, "It weighs in at under 150 words and I've seen people call it a poem, a flash fiction, even an essay. I think it's sort of a hybrid piece, a prose poem." Call it what you will, five years later, it speaks searingly to the present times. { read more } Be The Change Learn more about the grassroots movement, "Moms Demand Action," here. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Barbara Kingsolver on Knitting as Creation Story Translating Meaning Into Life: A Taoist Parable The Keys to Aging Well The Gentle Art of Blessing Live a Life Worth Living Words Can Change Your Brain Why We Should Take World Octopus Day Seriously The Really Terrible Orchestra DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 165,016 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More