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Kristy Milligan
Kristy Milligan

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May 12

People who sleep inside should not make decisions that delay/deny care or opportunity for people experiencing homelessness.

That’s it. Full stop. If you’ve read just that sentence, gold star for you. Right now, at this moment, I am working with someone who has been identified for housing. She is smart and sassy and a great mother and remarkably persistent, despite being houseless. She was also lucky to…

Poverty

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Poverty

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Dec 7, 2022

Storylines

Last year, after a particularly wrenching death within the community, a dear friend sent me this excerpt from the epilogue of Mary Lou Kownacki’s Monasteries of the Heart. See, I used to believe that with enough care, with enough acceptance, the victims of poverty, of mental illness, would become whole, would lead meaningful lives. But that…

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Apr 17, 2022

Seven things runners (and everybody else) should know about homeless camps

I recently read a missive denigrating a race that listed, among its complaints, the “urban” section of trail and — more specifically — the presence of people experiencing homelessness within that section. As a runner, I understand. You’re on your favorite trail, or participating in an organized event and you…

Homeless

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Seven things runners (and everybody else) should know about homeless camps
Seven things runners (and everybody else) should know about homeless camps
Homeless

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Apr 8, 2022

Facts, five years after my sister died

: My eggs this morning looked like the moon’s surface. : You’ve been gone for 157,680,000 seconds, give or take. : After my father delivered the news, he pocket-dialed me. I saved the message and still listen to it, though most of what I could hear was only breath. …

Grief

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Facts, five years after my sister died
Facts, five years after my sister died
Grief

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Mar 6, 2022

Erasure

In a recent interview with Krista Tippett, Collette Pichon Battle spoke of our collective moral obligation to support our community’s most vulnerable members, and the collapse of the systems that are — theoretically — designed to provide that support. She said: “So the structures and the laws of our country…

Poverty

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Erasure
Erasure
Poverty

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Feb 23, 2022

A poem about someone who’s housed, and a few people who are not.

I don’t want to write anymore. Instead, I want to draw tiny hearts everywhere, doodle daisies on the arms of people I meet so I can show them something can grow here The woman who waits weekly at the pantry who revealed she lives in an office building with her…

Addiction

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Addiction

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Dec 17, 2021

On waking

What is the American Dream, exactly? What wretched refuse of what teeming shores of what shithole countries still look to our shores, our own wretched refuse, and aspire? What hallucination, what hologram, what choking regurgitation or recapitulation still serves in slumber or sentience? …

Poverty

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Poverty

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Sep 18, 2021

An open letter to vaccine-hesitant folx

I probably don’t have anything new to say to you. I bet I don’t have anything to say that will change your mind. I suppose neither is the point of this. Truth told, I’ve got some shit to say, and I’m gonna say it. I had a COVID scare this…

Covid-19

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An open letter to vaccine-hesitant folx
An open letter to vaccine-hesitant folx
Covid-19

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Jul 31, 2021

On death and space and work

I keep a list on my phone of people I’ve loved who have died. At my work, we call these people “neighbors” because they literally are. Our neighbors. …

Mwc Death

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On death and space and work
On death and space and work
Mwc Death

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Jul 19, 2021

On the days I don’t write poetry

On the days I don’t write poetry My pen skids instead across a check; court fees covered, eviction evaded I lock eyes with my best friend over her croissant and we explore practical, necessary questions, like what kind of container can catch all the tears that fall from “this is…

Poetry

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On the days I don’t write poetry
On the days I don’t write poetry
Poetry

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Kristy Milligan

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