The Enchanted Forest

Fresh Fish Sold Here

the writing life

Jun 18 • 

Kanya Kanchana

Courtly Love vs Carnal Love

When they ask: How could you do that to a book?!

Jun 12 • 

Kanya Kanchana

Elementalia: Fire Water Earth Air Space

✨ COMPLETE SERIES ✨ in five longform lyric hybrid chapters on Asymptote

Jun 5 • 

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March 2025

A Little Skwid in the Doctor’s Office

Who you calling an invertebrate?

Mar 23 • 

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Dimly Lit with the Infrequent Lamp

“nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could”

Mar 2 • 

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February 2025

Drawing on a Single Breath

the way of the brush

Feb 23 • 

Kanya Kanchana

Three or Four Caterpillars

form & fixity; quest & courage; nourishment & metamorphosis

Feb 2 • 

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January 2025

Nature Writing Playlist 🎵

unusual music to play while thinking and writing about nature

Jan 25 • 

Kanya Kanchana

Impossible Delights

Escher, Penrose, and Monument Valley

Jan 18 • 

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Coming Home by Mary Oliver

looking again, seeing anew, and the shape of a poem

Jan 11 • 

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Offerings

light, sound, and songs that echo through the ages

Jan 3 • 

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December 2024

Ancient Stories

a roundup of longform lyric essays I wrote for Asymptote Retellings

Dec 25, 2024 • 

Kanya Kanchana