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The Gen X urge to try to cram her back in my mouth, yeah

Photo of a smiling Black woman in PhD regalia smiling outside a university building. Professor Linda Davis, killed by ICE when they struck her car and left her to die without offering aid.

Listening to Eric Carman's "Hungry Eyes" early in the AM really sets a tone for the day.

Today I shamed a fraternal twin for not being an identical, like me. Hierarchies everywhere.

I watched 9 to 5 at multiple slumber parties growing up and I think that was important. What's the new 9 to 5? And do the youths still do slumber parties?

Stephanie Burt · On Richard Siken When Didion declared ‘we tell ourselves stories in order to live,’ she meant that we lie to ourselves all the time....

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Let me tell you: some of our countries aren’t where we left them.

Jane Zwart, from her luminous collection ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST
#smallpoemsunday

Let’s hold hands and take cyanide pills on this hill.

I did the same (somewhere in the 400 books range) -- thank you for your thoughtful writing & for making me feel so seen ❤️ I now refer to myself as a scholar of Romance.

text from the app linked, including “stop ice’s aggressive attacks on immigrants & citizens”

text from the app linked

five calls makes it easy to call your reps, it takes mere minutes & they provide a script. you can call about ice’s murder of renee nicole good, a fellow writer & poet. you can call about venezuela

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Full poem text: TAO QIAN, translated Arthur Sze, from SILK DRAGON II collection Drinking Wine (I) A green pine is in the east garden, but the many grasses obscure it. A frost wipes out all the other species, and then I see its magnificent tall branches. In a forest, men do not notice it, but standing alone, it is a miracle. I hang a jug of wine on a cold branch; then stand back, and look again and again. My life spins with dreams and illusions. Why then be fastened to the world?

Why then be fastened to the world?

Tao Qian, trans. Arthur Sze

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

a highlight of the year was meeting these superior architects

dream of honey

Ross Gay, “Ode to the Beekeeper”
#smallpoemsunday

This is good.

Thank you, dear. ♥️

Forgot my coffee in the car before teaching morning class. Began lecture, then bleated “Where’s my coffee?” followed quickly by “NOBODY PANIC!” as a sea of sleepy faces stared back at me blankly.
The semester can’t end soon enough.

Tinker Swift, Taylor Swift, Soldier Swift, Spy Swift

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

One day late, but always worth sharing.

From Louise Glück's Collected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9780374534097

#poem #books #writing

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Oh oh, so fun! I’m delighted! A wee bit of poetry magic 🪄

952: Litany "Litany" Carolyn Creedon Tom, will you let me love you in your restaurant? i will let you make me a sandwich of your invention and i will eat it and call it a carolyn sandwich. then you will kiss my l...

Love this one from an old BEST AMERICAN POETRY: exceptindreams.livejournal.com/247821.html? “Litany”

so be it

stab out my eyes

Eating leftover pecan pie and watching HEATED RIVALRY as any Midwest mid-life woman would

Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility

An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon

ICE vs the clergy

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

What the fuck did I just read? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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