RJD had such an amazing voice!
12.03.2026 02:59
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RJD had such an amazing voice!
happy bday writer Jack Kerouac, b.1922, Lowell, MA.
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
Plunkett Station, Waterford City. Greeted by the poet and revolutionary.
If we have museums in the future…
Turning the world over to madmen. That is what is happening. Madmen.
Ronnie Delany, Ireland’s Olympic gold medal-winning athlete, has died aged 91
Co Wicklow runner won gold in the 1,500m at the Olympics in Melbourne in 1956
www.irishtimes.com/sport/athlet...
Adrienne Rich:
My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.
A photograph psted by the Iris Centre for Poetry Studies showing the page on which Alvy Carrager's poem Library is printed, from Carrager's collection What Remains the Same (Gallery Books). The book sits open on a wooden table, and a gold pen rests above it.
....And this gives me an excuse to post one of my favourite poems about the importance of books: "Library" by Alvy Carragher. She's a Dublin-based Irish poet, but her poem perfectly describes my troubled, library-loving young mother in New Jersey/Pennsylvania too.
I'm doing something I've not done before. I'm taking the paywall off this latest piece of mine, just for an hour, solely so people on Bluesky who want to read the full thing can.
I massively enjoyed writing it.
www.tom-cox.com/in-the-villa...
Is anyone else experiencing debilitating amounts of dread?
Supplication O poetry, visit this house often, imbue my life with success, leave me not alone, give me a wife and home. Take this curse off of early death and drugs, make me a friend among peers, lend me love, and timeliness. Return me to the men who teach and above all, cure the hurts of wanting the impossible through this suspended vacuum. 1969
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to share small poems you wrote or that you love by other poets :)
here’s John Wieners, after a wonderful week of getting to feel like “a friend among peers”~
Joy is rebellion. Art is rebellion. Recovery is rebellion. Stories are rebellion.
Oh beloved John O’ Donohue. I love this idea of approaching life with reverence and life being responsive to this.
Reminds me of a Parker Palmer lovely image of making room for tenderness as if waiting quietly by a tree for a deer encounter.
“Oppressed beneath the weight of their own corruption and of military violence, they for a long while preserved the sentiments, or at least the ideas, of their freeborn ancestors.”
—Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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!
