They're stealing the voice of Sinead O'Connor, who risked her own career in 1992 by speaking up about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, so let's make this theft an occasion to keep talking about Trump in the Epstein files.
This is what happens when you put a shit for brains pedophile rapist Nazi in charge and let him play with war toys, unfettered.
The Christian Nazis enabling him are are rubbing their hands together in joy.
Watching Jesse Jackson's funeral, and man, the Black Church does it different. I love traditions like this where the divine spirit is truly walking among us.
www.youtube.com/live/LZQ2CD6...
Poem - The Promise by Marie Howe
Sometimes the most important things we know about each other are never spoken, the things we need to say remain unsaid when we still have the opportunity to say them
Then opportunity passes and doesn't return.
There is a lesson in this poem by Marie Howe
#poetry
#poemoftheday
For incarcerated people, #books are power are hope. #Bookbans are acts of oppression. Challenging them requires understanding them.
3/18. 1p EST. 👇🏽
@themarshallproject.org hosts a virtual event teaching you how to investigate book bans.
An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.
May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.
Sigh
This is largely why some of us knew how bad the pandemic was gonna be around here. I wrote in a post in June 2020 that the US was not a decent nation, and we were gonna find out just how indecent we could be.
you can see it if you've lived most anywhere else, but: the US has just an immense chasm in its heart these days, we lack coherence or group narratives that almost every other country can develop. we're incredibly variegated, and so many of us can't be told nothin'
Such a good series…
If, like me, you're having a week of personal and professional bummers, it may lift your spirits to learn that Tana French's new book comes out this month
www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-keeper...
happy bday writer Leslie Marmon Silko b.1948, Albuquerque, NM.
“I will tell you something about stories. They aren't just entertainment. They are all we have to fight off illness and death. You don't have anything if you don't have stories.”
RIP Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, died this day 1966, nominated for Nobel Prize in Lit in 1965 and 1966.
“Rising from the past, my shadow
Is running in silence to meet me.”
"Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.”
Muji pens rule!
Muji! The best!
You know what could be fun? Reading all the Newbery award winning books. There are over 100 of them, but they're all kids' books, so some are pretty short
This is a spot in our forest I like to call a "Thin Place." It feels different than any other places we walk. So I decided to try capture a moment to share.
The weird thing is that to me it was almost completely silent when I recorded it but my phone has some feedback or picked up on some noise.
NIGHTGOWN A cold so keen, My speech unfurls tonight As from the chattering teeth Of a sewing machine. Whom words appear to warm, Dear heart, wear mine. Come forth Wound in their flimsy white And give it form.
James Merrill, born 100 years ago today
From a poem sequence by Denise Levertov.
Please share this
Bert the Blackbird is a legend
A wild bird that filled our life with joy. But he has gone
Poem by Noor Hindi
I've been in workshops with debates about commas & line breaks, rather than shouting ‘YES YES’ at the emotional gravity of a poem
“I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies”
PS there's craft in this, but it still interrupts you
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Happy (much-missed) Peter Straub's birthday!
❤️
nikita gill poem
this poem by the lovely @nikitagill.bsky.social always hits me right in the heart ❤️🩹
If you’re still carrying the torch for the Democrats or spending your time defending them, please, I beg you, look around.
They’re saying they agree with this illegal war, they just demand the privilege to make it legal.
This isn’t opposition. This isn’t capitulation. This is cooperation.
A coyote walks across a field of brown grass, yawning.
Affirmation Coyote's M-F friends are starting to cross the Hump.
Do not tire! Up and over, and onwards to the weekend.
Did you also hear that Coleman Barks died two days ago? I'm sending love to all who loved him and his work.
@watchdog666.bsky.social I am English. I run Folklore Against Fascism. I have spent more than a decade of opposing far right and ethnostate numptism on social media, more than three decades opposing on the streets of England. Please take me off the list, not least because it is defamatory.
This person put me on a MAGA block list. A particularly nasty form of defamation.
In his 1958 lecture at Pratt, Rothko's last public statement, he said,"Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them."
this could have been a text to @shivambhatt.bsky.social
