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Sleeve, by Minnie Bruce Pratt YouTube video by Poetry in Parks

I lie in the dark, listening to a pulse of sound,
letters in an unknown alphabet spelling out words
that come and go through a sorrowful labyrinth.

~ Sleeve, by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Read by @nandanky.bsky.social

#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem #QueerPoetry

Several clusters of pale blue plumbago blossoms in the sunshine.

The plumbago is in an exuberant mood today!

Suck-poppet: what you get called when you attack WA Spooner online using a fake ID.

A woman in a spacesuit-sari draws a kolam on the ground of an alien planet. A ringed planet, a spaceship, and a floating house/moon are visible in the background

8 hours left! If we can make it to $3k all backers who ordered a physical reward will get a "Kumari in Space" postcard!

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The problem with living under budget fascism is the fucking trains don’t run on time.

There has been discourse about the environmental cost of the war on Palestine. Not enough, yes, but also understandable because there are so many other horrors being perpetrated there

Nighttime, by Soibam Haripriya YouTube video by Poetry in Parks

Home, for now, smell of pine trees
the sky visits in mist.
I am always at the borders of whimsical sun-rain.
Seasons seep through leaky roofs and skylight.
After you left I thought I will lose language,

~Nighttime, by Soibam Haripriya

Read by Sukrity

#PoetryInParks #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem

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I’m standing against a plain light wall, holding a copy of Intergalactic Feast at chest height so the colorful space-themed cover faces the camera. I’ve got long, dark hair, and I’m wearing a navy lace top, light jeans, and red lipstick, looking directly at the camera with a small smile.

INTERGALACTIC FEAST is out in North America!

It’s the sequel to Interstellar MegaChef, with more Serenity Ko shenanigans, more secrets sneaking up on Saras… and all the food in the galaxy 🍩🚀

I’m super excited to be sharing this book with you!

A 🧵 of gratitude! But first…

When philanthropy is less leap of faith, more numbers game In a climate where outcome monitoring, scaling up, and sustainability are the main buzzwords, grassroots organisations that speak from the heart are likely to be deprived of resources and public atten...

“India is home to some of the greatest transformative movements — Satyagraha and non-violence, land reform, dairy cooperatives, the Chipko Movement — all rooted in grassroots civic action…Let us not allow the space for civic action to shrink in the pursuit of the holy grail of outcome monitoring.”

If you’re in India/ South Asia, it’s heading your way on March 20th from HarperCollins India.

Pre orders are open!

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I’m at capacity, but we may need an urgent fundraiser set up + energetic campaign support for someone being deported back to west asia in the middle of a genocidal war; please ping here if you can help.

I can show you all ropes involved but I can’t do this myself 😭

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LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

[Things you bring to the ocean at night], by Nayyirah Waheed YouTube video by Poetry in Parks

the clothes you wear on your mouth.
the warm smoke in your legs.
a quiet quilt.

~ [Things you bring to the ocean at night]
Nayyirah Waheed

Read by @yellowchiffon.bsky.social

#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem

Oh dear. The spinach is going to seed.

#HowMyGardenGrows #Flarz

A pink hibiscus buds, yet to unfurl.

A white flower with crinkled edges.

A cluster of sky-blue plumbago blossoms.

A cluster of plumbago buds.

#HowMyGardenGrows #Flarz

A single plumbago blossom.

A single sky-blue plumbago blossom. Next to it, other blooms from the same cluster have wilted.

A cluster of plumbago buds, done if which are showing their future light blue petals, tightly furled still.

A cluster of plumbago buds.

#HowMyGardenGrows #Flarz

A close-up of a hibiscus bud that will open shortly. A water droplet lingers on the anther still wrapped in petals.

A close-up of a hibiscus bud that will open shortly. A water droplet lingers on the anther still wrapped in petals.

A hibiscus bloom that has begun to wilt. #HowMyGardenGrows #Flarz

A hibiscus bloom that has begun to wilt. #HowMyGardenGrows #Flarz

Fresh blooms and wilting divas.

#HowMyGardenGrows #Flarz

A white flower, and below it, the wilted remains of an earlier blossom. Shot in soft morning light against leaves in the shadows.

A white flower, shot in soft morning light.

#HowMyGardenGrows #Flarz

Here, by Nathalie Handal YouTube video by Poetry in Parks

evidence of homes buried
in different names
here
the years we never defined
here
the echoes we collected
in each other
here

~ Here, by Nathalie Handal

Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social

#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem

A banner featuring a logo on the side with a painted anemone poppy and the handwriting-style text that says "Heal Minds Gaza" in a green circle. Next to it reads: "Heal Minds Gaza is a new initiative that will support children’s healing through therapeutic activities for self-esteem, social skills, and community-building. Support the first project for children who were detained in occupation prisons." The text is written on notebook paper cut in a circle. The banner is decorated with crayon sketches of hearts, stars, and squiggles in different colors.

A slice of justice in the darkness: help Palestinian kids who endured detention in occupation prisons.

We're putting together the resources, supplies, and labor to power a six-day mental health intervention for eighty of these kids. Any boldness helps. chuffed.org/project/hmg

It’s Not Complicated The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.

The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched an online publication, and the intro essay is worth your time. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

A pal’s father has two complex orthopedic surgeries on 11th March and urgently requires 6 pints of B+ blood (donors of any blood group are welcome as exchange donors).

Lilavati Hospital Blood Bank, Bandra Reclamation, Bombay.

Patient: Ramesh Datta
Bed No.: 108 – SICU
Contact: Tejas Datta

How Poetry Works, by J-T Kelly YouTube video by Poetry in Parks

It sneaks in on a Tuesday,
You're in your teens, in class.
Nobody cares what you say.
You feel in shards of glass.

~ How Poetry Works, by @j-tkelly.bsky.social

#PoetryInParks #Poetry #SpokenPoetry #MayIReadYouAPoem

Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen YouTube video by Poetry in Parks

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

~ Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen

Read by Saundarya.

Right.

A group of people posing for the camera in the twilight. Seven of them sit on a raised platform, while four others kneel or sit on the grass in front of them. Around them are trees and the glow of a few of the park’s lights.

11 people met at Ambedkar Udyan, Nerul, and shared over 30 poems.

On r/nottheonion in reply to a post titled ‘Samsung renames its internet browser from "Internet" to "Browser" A comment says: Samsung has the worst naming. They need to fire their product managers. They bought out a company that was wildly successful with a huge following (Whisk) and then killed the brand to call it "Samsung Food." A reply says Wait THAT'S what happened to Whisk?? On my old Samsung I distinctly remember suddenly having a 'Samsung Food' app that I uninstalled because I thought it was new bloat that had been added. Then a while later I realised my Whisk was gone and I couldn't find it in the app store to reinstall. Ended up forgetting about it because I didn't use it much anyway. Wild.

Today in corporate brainrot. #HaveFootWillShootIt #AsSeenOnReddit