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Clothing Optional
There are few people I’ve met in real life who are as brutally authentic, and simultaneously as hilarious as my friend K.J. Ramsey. She knows how to hold hard things and humor at the same time, and that’s what you get in her brutal yet joyf...
VELVETEEN
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Velveteen
For Zoe
last week I said “she’s looking
a little velveteen.”
and you glared at me...
METABOLIZE Live Poetry Workshop with Grace E. Kelley
Catch the Recording | Poet Farmer's live video
Thank you Valerie Maxwell, Lisa MacKenzie, Melissa Reed, Thomas DeFreitas and many others for tuning into my live video with my wonderful co-host D'Shan Berry! Join me for my next live video i...
Does God love us like a Mother?
I was first introduced to the work of my wonderful writer friend on Instagram. Her poetry is searing and holy in the best ways—and in the darkest days of early twin parenthood, her words about God loving like a Mother have been the ones to...
& ALL SHALL BE WELL EVEN AFTER THE DARKEST NIGHT
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birds sang merry & defiant
while tears of rage & grief
poured themselves down Mary’s face
w...
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Writer of Poetry, Personal Essays & Speculative Fiction. Follower of the Jesus of the Long Table. Writing words and planting seeds as rebellion.
Christian writer exploring maternal imagery for God in the Bible - and how God loves us like a mother. My book Love like a Mother: How the Sacred Work of Motherhood Reveals the Maternal Heart of God comes out May 2026 with Brazos Press.
D'Shan Berry lives and writes in Roswell, New Mexico. She hopes her words point to our Creator and help others feel less alone. Her goal is to leave this earth better than she found it by sharing truth and beauty.
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