Julie Babcock
@juliebabcock
poet (Autoplay & Rules for Rearrangement) winner of a book prize + a 3rd grade talent show. UM Lecturer. Cofounding editor @ publicschoolpoetry.com/ juliebabcockwrites.com
My 8-year-old self demanded I buy this rose gold glitter notebook for Writer Camp @barrelhouse.bsky.social
I know soccer's happening, but also, pitting cherries using a glass beer bottle and a chopstick is highly effective and fun @davidww.bsky.social
One of many Monday morning monarchs skimming milkweed. Clay Cliffs Nature Preserve
Turns out you can make an Italian liqueur with young, green black walnuts. Will these baby nuts I've been gathering with @davidww.bsky.social turn into Nocino?! Check back in about 3 months!
Minneapolis visit=1st visit to Milkweed Books & my new obsession with Tomaz Salamun
UM student Tony Lui doing a Lemon performance in honor of his immigrant great great grandfather who came to America and then never got to see his family again. Lemon eating contest, lemon baseball, and homemade lemonade sweetened with pomegranate molasses.
A strangely comforting fortune to get at the end of March when I've been working at full capacity. New beginning work doesn't start for 8 months
Donzaleigh Abernathy spoke this morning about the need to raise the level of education for young people- to give them choice and inspiration. What a photo of her standing up in the Selma to Montgomery March, 1965!
Detroit youth choir & Mama Sōl lifting their voices at UM's MLK symposium.
Looking forward to @rachellayown.bsky.social novel How We See the Gray. Thanks for the postcard and care wishes!
For Christmas, my son made a sequel to this evolving game we started together on the back of a Snapfish box over a decade before when he was in 2nd grade.
Female reindeer in the wild are the only ones with antlers at Christmas-time, they have birth synchrony, & they can run up to 50 mph.
Found art piece in the room I taught this morning that provoked some amazing discussion.
These tomatoes were hard & green when I picked them before the first frost last month. I was going to fry some today, & discovered a tomato ripening miracle.
Found old Toys 'R'Us batteries in this spider. Was sad when they went bankrupt in 2018. And creeped out now to discover the store's kinda been resurrected through a company called Tru Kids.