Trying to figure out how to live a meaningful life belonging to this earth. Studying poetry in a PhD program and teaching literature to university students.

Sharing thoughts, interests, and experiences.

I write and read poetry.

Interests include mythology, animism & polytheism, philosophy and theory, art, history, and archaeology.
Hiking, camping, gym, occasional ocean swimming, going to poetry readings, art shows, concerts, and museums.
Linen & wool.

Art! Share your favorite visual artists with me!
Some of my favorites are: Edward Burne-Jones, Edvard Munch, Alphonse Mucha, Konstantin Makovsky, William Morris, Evelyn De Morgan, Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Henry Darger, John Duncan, John Bauer, Edmund Dulac, Gustav Klimt, Hieronymus Bosch, Nikolai Astrup, Mikhail Vrubel, Thomas Cooper Gotch, Bruegel, John William Waterhouse, Samuel Palmer, Mikhail Nesterov, Boris Olshansky, Sulamith Wulfing

I love folk and traditional music from around the world, as well as more modern music inspired by these traditions, and I would be interested in music from your region!
Some favorites include:
Kūlgrinda, Фольклорный ансамбль Воля, Saucējas, Brighde Chaimbeul, Huun-Huur-Tu, Sian, Wardruna, Olena Uutai, Tartit, Heilung, Tarta Relena, Siti Muharam, Ratilio, Очелье сороки, Cengiz Özkan, POLE, Otava Yo, Merope, Mari Boine, The Watersons, Julie Fowlis, Gilė, Daimh, Clannad, Под Облаками

A lot of other music too!: Grouper, Sigur Rós, Laurie Spiegel, Kali Malone, Gwenno, Fleet Foxes, Shuma, Alina Pash, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Mari Mathias, Ulla Pirttijärvi, Sofia Jannok, Eleanoora Rosenholm, Iva Sativa, Joanna Newsom, ЛУНА, Alice Coltrane, Arushi Jain, Sen Svaja, various metal bands…

Marketa Lazarova, Wings of Desire (Der Himmel Über Berlin), The Color of Pomegranates, Under the Silver Globe, The Master, Stalker, The Witch, The Juniper Tree, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Heart of Glass, Melancholia, Come and See, The Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari, Post Tenebras Lux, The Green Knight, Midsommar, Son of the White Mare, Siberiade, Alien, Possession, Proschchanie (Farewell), El Sur, Queen Margot, Donnie Darko, Mandy, November, The Northman, Fireworks Wednesday, Suspiria, Beyond the Hills, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, The Lobster, The Love Witch, Black Moon, La Chinoise, Persona, You Won't Be Alone, many more

Poetry. I would be interested to read any poetry from your country! (in translation):
Rainer Maria Rilke, H.D., Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Susan Howe, William Blake, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Dylan Thomas, Nathaniel Mackey, Linda Hogan, Alice Notley, John Keats, Federico Garcia Lorca, Cody-Rose Clevidence, Beowulf, medieval and ancient poetry

Philosophy:
Gilles Deleuze, Alfred North Whitehead, Baruch Spinoza, Isabelle Stengers, Brian Massumi, Donna Haraway

Fiction:
Virginia Woolf's "The Waves," Samuel Delany's "Nevèrÿon" series, Djuna Barnes' "Nightwood", Frank Herbert's "Dune" series