Saw Un Poeta this afternoon and now I have a new favorite movie of the batch I’ve seen in the theater so far this year. More movies about poets, please!
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Saw Un Poeta this afternoon and now I have a new favorite movie of the batch I’ve seen in the theater so far this year. More movies about poets, please!
Gonna read this and probably get riled up www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2440-e...
TRULY.
Love this track from the legendary guitarist/singer Ali Farka Touré: youtu.be/Ru0JGaroX-s?...
After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them "cowards" and telling them to go home. One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: "Boo hoo." Agents elsewhere shoved a yelling protester into a car. Protesters dragged garbage dumpsters from alleyways to block the streets, and people who gathered chanted, "ICE out now," referring to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. "They're killing my neighbors!" said Minneapolis resident Josh Koskie.
“One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling (protesters): ‘Boo hoo.’” apnews.com/article/immi...
Just watched Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice and holy crap it’s the best new movie I’ve seen in a long time, an absolute ride all the way through.
This happened a couple blocks from my house, jesus christ! This is a nightmare. I dont even know what to do. apnews.com/article/immi...
A picture of a book of poetry, Archy and Mehitabel, by Don Marquis, with drawings of a cat and a cockroach.
Love this series of funny poems about Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the cat (originally published in a newspaper column in 1916).
Poem by Heather Christie: Perfect Song I remember walking through the mornir after a night of heavy snow and drink with headphones on and they played me the most perfect song: no one was awake and I was hungover young as clean as a piano I thought and at any moment someone might fall in love with me I wa that woven into the electric cold bright air and for weeks after I went through the album in search of the song but could not find it and later much later I saw that what I had taken to be the song was in fact the joyous concordance of a moment that would not come again
Love this poem from Heather Christie.
I’m not a believer, but every day I wake up and pray for the AI bubble to pop.
I read the whole VF N*zzi piece and laughed until I cried at how bad it was. I won’t link because I don’t want her to get clicks! Here’s a buzzy book I would actually recommend instead (by Hannah Pitard, a good writer) bookshop.org/p/books/if-y...
Poor baby. :( I’m heartened by how much people cared and that she wasn’t alone.
Poem by Monica McClure CLASS SONG If I were a man I would turn this self-violence onto you The lace was still gathered at my throat when they collected my bones among embers and opal But haven't you heard we rise from the ashes with our red hair It's too bad I dreamed of Cambridge but couldn't get accepted because of two Class B misdemeanors I wanted to be among great men Monica hearts Philip Larkin 4evah
Enjoying this one from Monica McClure:
The title page of Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe with an inscription reading “Karin, On the bus or not…Love, Mom and Dad, Christmas 2004.”
I requested this book for Christmas 20 years ago and my parents cutely inscribed it. I wish all the books I got as gifts had little notes in them. ❤️
A photo of Mt Tabor park in Portland with tennis courts, people in silhouette, a blue aquifer, and autumn trees in the background.
The only issue on the ballot here (parks levy) passed, hooray! I don’t have a car to get into the wilderness often, so parks are extra important to me. Here’s a little snap of my baby, Mt. Tabor Park:
Reading this book on doomsday cults in America and finding it fascinating and terrifying, especially because it ties in MAGA, American culture today, etc. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cults-...
Bob Hicok used to be one of my favorite poets, but I just looked up his terrible essay from 2019 and am so disappointed. No poem-sharing for you, Bob. Hope you’ve learned something over the past 6 years: newrepublic.com/article/1546...
In another life I would have pursued a career in something related to public policy; glad I became a poet instead.
Shazam-ing my neighbors’ shitty metalcore through the wall to see which terrible band they’re listening to, and then getting even madder when it’s one I’ve never heard of. Worst genre.
I love Caesar the No Drama Llama and more people outside Oregon need to know about him (plus crucial therapy llama feud content from 2020, for the archive): www.wweek.com/culture/2020...
Poem by Eileen Myles: Today I would love to love someone forever & fuck them till they died.
Eileen Myles nails it.
People have been mistakenly calling me “Karen” my whole life, and I don’t mind correcting people, but in an age of karens it is a bit tiring, gotta say.
Suddenly remembered this Big Star song I was obsessed with 10-15 years ago. All of my favorite songs are love songs youtu.be/utOb0JRLH0A?...
Poem: BRUTE STRENGTH Soldier for a lost cause, brute, mute woman written out of my own story, I've been trying to cast a searchlight over swamp-woods & parasitic ash back to my beginning, that girlhood— kite-wisp clouded by gun salutes & blackbirds tearing out from under the hickories all those fine August mornings so temporary so gold-ringed by heat haze & where is that witch girl unafraid of anything, flea-spangled little yard rat, runt of no litter, queen, girl who wouldn't let a boy hit her, girl refusing to be It in tag, pulling that fox hide heavy around her like a flag? Let me look at her. Tell her on my honor, I will set the wedding dress on fire when I'm good & ready or she can bury me in it.
Emily Skaja’s got the juice.
This Horse Feathers cover of Nirvana came out in 2010 and I’m sad I didn’t know about it, a great song to slow down: youtu.be/3-FO0HaVc0Y?...
Fiona Apple and Jon Brion covering Buddy Holly. I love this song, would 100% sing it to a baby: youtu.be/IJGZImkXMVc?...
THE O F ENEMIES LOVE My mother was fond of digital pets, And put her hand on my head, And pressed her finger down. My father was a smartphone. My brother is a simile. My sister is a butterfly who eats butterflies. She flutters over, and matches her wings to theirs. I say "Oh you're a dragonfly!" and she says, "No, an angel." The cutscenes make it look like I'm living this life like a pro. But the gameplay footage shows me getting beat to death by angels. Shows me reloading, Shows me getting crushed under the weight of the gold I recover from their corpses. In this way, I come to resemble even my enemies.
From Safe Word by Donald Dunbar:
Maybe mostly everyone has seen it by now, and Fallon sucks, but this song by Hayley Williams is really kind of great, calls out white southern christofascism and racism, more of this, please! youtu.be/sNNYei__joU?...
