JoelRGarza

Too much doom scrolling for me, friends

I’m gonna try a social-media-dry January

See y’all on the other side 🤠🫶🏽

Fuqdat 😬😱

Prince Engineer Susan Rogers: THE INTERVIEW. Live From Sunset Sound YouTube video by The Roundtable with Drew Dempsey

This interview gives a taste of the book, but it’s mostly about working for years with Prince

HIGHLY recommend 🎤🎸😱https://youtu.be/9Iv__walYL4?feature=shared

@robmclennan.bsky.social! The chapbook care package arrived today! Thanks for your generosity! Cannot WAIT to see what it inspires for my students! If you’re ever in TX, the first pitcher of margaritas is on me

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU! 🤠🫶🏽🫔

Recommended Reading 2024 Following Han VanderHart’s invitation to show our love for small presses, here in no particular order are ten (mostly) small press poetry books I enjoyed and spent time with this year. You&#8…

I had way too much fun writing up 10 small press poetry books I enjoyed this year. Drumroll please! 🧵
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Burning the Old Year with Naomi Shihab Nye Visit the post for more.

My friend designed this lesson on that poem for her HS Ss to kick off the new year 🔥🗓️ teachlivingpoets.com/2020/01/14/b...

Statement by President Jimmy Carter included on the Voyager Golden Record: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/voyager-spacecraft-statement-the-president

"We are attempting to survive our time, so we may live into yours."

Great ideas, great protocols & examples throughout for sure!

Cover of Step Aside: Strategies for Student-Driven Learning with Secondary Readers and Writers by Sarah M. Zerwin, foreward by Cris Tovani. The cover has an image of a road or street on it.

I just got @sarahmzerwin.bsky.social’s STEP ASIDE: STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT-DRIVEN LEARNING WITH SECONDARY READERS AND WRITERS (#Routledge) in the mail, and I’m excited to dive in! The book is beautiful with colorful charts, student work, and sketches!

On a related note: Clash Should I Stay or Should I Go? Not a difficult Q—“If I go, there will be trouble / And if I stay, it will be double”

You should GO in order to avoid *double* trouble

[ahem]

[sees self out]

The Anxious Generation — If Books Could Kill Is social media to blame for the teen mental health crisis? It’s complicated!Thanks to Emily Weinstein, Amy Orben, Andrew Przybylski, Dean Burnett, Michael Mullarkey and Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz for hel...

And this podcast episode! overcast.fm/+AA9URK9lzPs

Right?! So nice on the ear, the eye, & the brain :)

“Ravens /
ride the storms, black boats with slow /
black oars.” 😱🤯🫶🏽

Filling the Birdfeeder on the Coldest Day of the Year with a line from William Stafford Here's one small thing I can help keep alive: chickadees flashing in the barred light between the big fir's old branches, which are bowed into shapelessness by wind, snow, time. The bohemian waxwings came for a day, found no berries, flocked as one into vanishment. Ravens ride the storms, black boats with slow black oars. In the middle of the day an ermine lithe as a snake leaps across the yard, leaving the full print of its form in the snow, divot and tail, divot and tail, then dives, disappears, until the head rises like a submarine's periscope. Individual flakes gleam bright as mica in the cold. I think of the mouse moving low in the layers, how the ermine finds him and tears him apart there in that invisible subnivean universe, how bright his unseen blood. What will I say when you ask me if what I have done is my life? The fox's faint tracks dent the fractal shards of sky. The chickadees shiver themselves alive.

YOUR MOTHER'S BEAR GUN POEMS CORRIE WILLIAMSON Beat skull with colored flora Design by Alban Fischer

Corrie Williamson, January 2025

Gorgeous cover design by Alban Fischer featuring dramatic, green sky, Barbwire and lake or culvert reflecting a sky

Stunning cover design by Alban Fischer featuring Bear skull with flowers coming out of it

Preorders are now live for Joe Wilkins’ Pastoral, 1994 and Corrie Williamson’s Your Mother’s Bear Gun! 20% discount, and our limited edition broadside bundles coming soon 📚✨

riverriverbooks.org/store/

Any chance you would be willing to post a single teaser poem? 🤠🤞🏽

Any update / improvement?

literature in translation should be the biggest section of any bookstore tbh

Hang in there🫶🏽

That sh1t is wrong

It has treated me so right. I need to get feedback from more Ss about it, but anecdotally it seems like it works really well for them

2025 will be the year of the flask for ya boy 😬🤣🤷🏽‍♂️

Burning the Old Year with Naomi Shihab Nye Visit the post for more.

I definitely shared Jessica Salfia’s plan, linked here!

🔥🗓️

teachlivingpoets.com/2020/01/14/b...

Omg this is the one, man ENJOY!

LOVE this feature—thanks for sharing! 🤠🫶🏽

50 Contemporary Poets on the Best Poems they Read in 2024 In the sea of endless year-end lists, poetry often seems to get sidelined, or forgotten—or maybe the critics and listmakers just aren’t reading enough poetry in the first place. Which made me…

#TeachLivingPoets
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Hard agree!

A shitty narrator can quickly take you out of the audiobook experience. But Percival Everett's "James" is narrated by Dominic Hoffman, and he does a masterful job. So masterful, that I'm tempted to purchase books on audible just off the strength of his involvement.

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue review – colonialism as a bloody heist comedy The Mexican writer’s imaginative riff on the conquest of the Aztecs is an enigmatic, drily funny farce

Álvaro Enrigue for this amazing piece of hallucinatory mostly-historical fiction about Cortés & Moctezuma! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/j...