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Introducing The Joy Menu, a narrative newsletter exploring how creativity helps us live more meaningful lives.
Aug 30, 2020
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Now Published—'Slow Business'
I published a poetry collection. Buy a copy today!
Oct 29, 2023
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Joey Rubin
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86–Slow business, indeed.
Slow Business – as in the process of illness, of dying, of grief. But also: the slow business of writing. And the slow business of poetry itself.
Sep 11, 2023
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The Joy Menu #46: Permission
Aug 29, 2021
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The Joy Menu #51: Drop
Oct 10, 2021
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The Joy Menu #66: Lack
May 1, 2022
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The Joy Menu #69: Unknowability
Jul 5, 2022
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71–This project, recalibrated.
Jan 1, 2023
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85–The sting is part of it now.
I see the heavy grey New York concrete. The sidewalks as chalky and fat as dinosaur bones. I see the movie theater facade, the box office. And I feel…
Aug 20, 2023
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Joey Rubin
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84–This heartbreaking unknowability.
All the answers to all the questions I’d never thought to ask.
Aug 6, 2023
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83–Like a tiger in the bush.
Some days I experienced my father’s decline with the equanimity of a monk, and other days with the fury of a tiger.
Jul 30, 2023
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82–In a chair across the room.
Watching him watch the world slip away, I wrote things down.
Jul 23, 2023
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Joey Rubin
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81–Awake and waiting.
To die in bed – your own bed, or a loaner, but in your space – is a triumph. A shitty triumph, but a triumph nonetheless.
Jul 16, 2023
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80—Where are we supposed to grieve, anyway?
I wasn’t sure about this poem. But nor was I sure where to take my grief.
Jul 2, 2023
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79–I will miss even this
And yet here they are. Here I am. And here we go. This is how it happened for me.
Jun 18, 2023
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