Bethany Besteman

@RevGirlKazoo 😂

@RevGirlKazoo @CRCNA @ryanstruyk 😱

@RevGirlKazoo @CRCNA @ryanstruyk Minority A is much harsher. Majority says “likely begin the process of disaffiliation” there’s some wiggle room in “likely”. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Still prefer Minority B of course.

@RevGirlKazoo @CRCNA @ryanstruyk The one about the parliamentarian? Or 2B?

My latest poem “Elijah” published in Solum Literary Journal today can also be read at my contributor’s profile. solumpress.com/contributors-b…

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@RevGirlKazoo My cohort also had informal group chats where we’d pop on to share news or vent or congratulate each other.

@RevGirlKazoo Not exactly the same even though I was only 45 minutes from campus, once I didn’t HAVE to go in it was really hard to find the motivation to. We sometimes held “shut up and write” study sessions by zoom. We’d log in say hi and set goals then have a 1-2 hour writing session.

So pleased that my poem “Parable of the Lost” found a home at @reformedjrnl . reformedjournal.com/parable-of-the…

Honored to have two poems in the spring issue of Cable Street. Thanks to @DanaDelibovi and all the editors for assembling a great issue. When all creation’s worked its way
back and darkness lies again
on the surface of the deep,
what will be good? cablestreet.org/issue-5-table-…

@RevGirlKazoo I feel like this needs to live in an echo chamber in my heart that I can come to from time to time when “despair for the world grows in me”

@RevGirlKazoo “God does, after all, so love the world”

@RevGirlKazoo The road trip. US coming of age ritual.

Wrote this a couple weeks back when I first noticed my hair falling out. Grateful for @reformedjrnl for publishing blog.reformedjournal.com/2023/12/30/the…

I wrote this poem a year ago. There was some reason I had to frantically clean out my car after sunset in December. Sometimes the most mundane things echo with the eternal. Thanks @EkstasisMag for publishing! ekstasismagazine.com/poetry/2023/de…

@sewistwrites I made a few felt portraits to give to family for holiday gifts.

@mair__wright Because the Renaissance privileged classical understandings of the arts: Aristotelian definitions ranked tragedy above comedy as a higher theatrical form. And Christian drama faced a lot of censorship because of of its connections to Catholicism so classical forms were safer.

Why did Shakespeare write tragedies, is the question my son is supposed to answer for homework, looking for thoughts

Poets of the Ekstasis Summer Collection: @BestemanBethany @chezbethany @dahl_jess @MG_Mangan0 @rimmymaa @AndrewMenkis @tara198400 @Keatingr @tnichollsmith @MarieTrotter @JeannieWhitlock @meganwillome @kheidiwong @miketoddyoung & many more

@RevGirlKazoo Causal and casual…so many freshman rhetoric essays mixed that one up.

@paul_jkrause Yes. Over and over and over. Every time brings new insight.

Be honest: Have you read T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets?