Advice “The Spinster’s Almanac”: Poetic Advice for Finding Your Way in the World
The Toast's poetry advice columnist, Marika Prokosh, offers some advice to a resilient reader who is ready to leave their hometown and build a new life.
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Advice “The Spinster’s Almanac”: Poetic Advice for Showing Yourself Kindness
The Toast's poetry advice columnist on how to show yourself tenderness and great care in the midst of depression.
Advice “The Spinster’s Almanac”: Poetic Advice for Creating Art in Small Spaces
The Toast's one and only poetry advice columnist offers some guidance for a reader attempting to nurture their creative life in "a small place."
Advice “The Spinster’s Almanac”: Poetic Advice for Finding a Different Story
The Toast's only poetry advice columnist offers some guidance to a late bloomer.
Advice “The Spinster’s Almanac”: Poetic Advice for Raveling and Moving On
You need advice. Let Anne Shaw's poetry give you some answers.
Advice “The Spinster’s Almanac”: Poetic Advice for Depression
The Toast's poetic advice column takes on the thorny problem of deep depression.
Advice “The Spinster’s Almanac”: Poetic Advice for Loneliness
In which Marika Prokosh finds poetic advice for our readers.
Advice “The Spinster’s Almanac”: Poetic Advice for a Terrible Summer
Our poetry advice column on what to read in order to process a particularly awful summer full of racist violence.
Advice Introducing “The Spinster’s Almanac”: Advice From Poetry
A new advice column, in which the wisdom dispensed is derived from glorious works of poetry.
Poetry “Jacqueline in the Delivery Room”: A Poem
after Florence WyleFlo was the artist. I managed the bloodand bones, babies slick with afterbirth,sicknesses like ciphers in the gridworkhallways of the teaching hospital. She gave birthon paper and in wood, bronzewhen she could get it. I saw her sketchingskeletons the first day of Anatomy—we were the only girls
