Joseph Fasano

I will never, ever get over this.

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

This will forever be the most amazing email.

for today—and every day

If the cosmos took billions of years to make you, if the iron in your blood was forged by stars, if your hair is stardust, if your heart is starlight, why, why would you waste your life thinking you were here to be anything other than the greatest flame in the frozen darkness: love.

I really think the Artemis mission has made most people feel that this is what humanity has to do:

what can I do / if I can't change it?

If you'd like me to come chat with your community about poetry, peace, and change, just message or email me, or reach out to my team at TheFasanoAcademy@gmail.com.

Taking out your unresolved childhood drama on another person is a reason for self-reflection. Taking it out on the entire world is a reason for impeachment.

I was putting my 4yo to bed, and he looked at me and asked, "Daddy, did we come from the same star?" Children are infinite. And they're all like that, everywhere in the world.

When people ask what power the poets have...

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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain. —James Baldwin

***For Those Who Lived Under the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation***