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I'm Dan Grossman. I'm a widely published poet and journalist living temporarily in San Diego, who calls Indianapolis home. My interests include the US border, & border between poetry & politics, #POELITICS. Follow my journey at Indycorrespondent.org

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Coming soon to a bookstore near you, by the author of 'Mindfucking Roundabouts of Carmel, Indiana'

14.02.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Indy Dance Film Fest reflects the dreams of local dancers and filmmakers The Jan. 27 event will highlight nine short dance films, including four from the Indianapolis area.

For anyone still chasing a dream. My article in @mirrorindy.org

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16.01.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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images from Chicano Park, Barrio Logan, San Diego

10.01.2026 22:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Resurrection Mixtape brings together the music of Mahler, Biggie and Tupac Oreo Jones will perform with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in a remix of classical music and hip-hop legends.

My original title was "A Biggie Deal"
Resurrection Mixtape brings together the music of Mahler, Biggie and Tupac mirrorindy.org/resurrection...

07.01.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Resurrection Mixtape brings together the music of Mahler, Biggie and Tupac Oreo Jones will perform with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in a remix of classical music and hip-hop legends.

Something I wrote for #mirrorindy.
mirrorindy.org/resurrection...

06.01.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Day of the Dead altar at Otay Mesa Detention Center β€” Indy Correspondent As night fell on October 29, immigrant activists set up a Day of the Dead altar outside the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego. Usually, these altars honor departed relatives. This one was for th...

If you've seen the motion picture #OneBattleAfterAnother, then you'll recall that the first scene is set at a detention center in Otay Mesa in San Diego... The real-world facility is worse -- more highly organized -- than the ramshackle cinematic one.

www.indycorrespondent.org/borderdiary/...

31.10.2025 14:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Epstein files stay hidden, but the Epstein Ballroom will be a prominent display.

28.10.2025 12:01 πŸ‘ 8000 πŸ” 3703 πŸ’¬ 448 πŸ“Œ 318
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A poet contemplates the demolition of the White House’s East Wing β€” Indy Correspondent As a poet, I’ve been thinking about the place of poetry in modern American discourseβ€”poetry as opposed to journalism. That space feels vanishingly small, and when poetry does enter the public square, ...

The demolition of the East Wing is getting to me as an American and as a poet. #poetry, #robertlowell, #politics, @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social, #whitehousedemolition, #whitehouse

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23.10.2025 15:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Eating Donald Trump’s golden shit in San Diego: a preview of the β€œNo Kings” protest β€” Indy Correspondent Eating Trump’s Golden Shit in San Diego: Dropping in on a β€œHands Off” Rally On Saturday April 5, 2025, I walked with the marchers in a β€œHands Off” rally in downtown San Diego. It was organized by th...

Considering Agent Orange's AI video where he basically shits on everybody from a great height, I kinda had a premonition of all this back in April.
www.indycorrespondent.org/blogsandpoet... #sandiego, #migration, @50501movement.bsky.social

20.10.2025 04:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of WH press secretary Leavitt. Above it, is a statement written in white lettering on a red background, calling her part of a child sex abuse coverup ring.

Photo of WH press secretary Leavitt. Above it, is a statement written in white lettering on a red background, calling her part of a child sex abuse coverup ring.

RELEASE THE FILES!

17.10.2025 13:47 πŸ‘ 445 πŸ” 175 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 7
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An art project 150 years in the making Janet Fry’s great-great-grandmother’s journal from 1875 is the subject of a new exhibition at Storage Space Gallery.

My most recent reporting on the arts scene in #indianapolis. #diaries

mirrorindy.org/art-opening-...

14.10.2025 13:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Eminem - No Kings (Donald Trump Diss) ft. 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Lamar
Eminem - No Kings (Donald Trump Diss) ft. 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Lamar YouTube video by Hollywood Remix

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πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ Eminem is on FIRE here, must listen!!! He shreds Trump (you’re just a clown in a King’s suit) and clips by Dr Dre, 50 Cent, Ice Cube.

#NoKings πŸ’™βš–οΈ

12.10.2025 23:36 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Eating Donald Trump’s golden shit in San Diego: a preview of the β€œNo Kings” protest β€” Indy Correspondent Eating Trump’s Golden Shit in San Diego: Dropping in on a β€œHands Off” Rally On Saturday April 5, 2025, I walked with the marchers in a β€œHands Off” rally in downtown San Diego. It was organized by th...

Some first person reporting from last spring that the National Review spitefully rejected. Has it ever occurred to them, or anyone, that Donald J. Trump is a sort of a King Midas of the asshole?
@50501movement.bsky.social, @50501movement.bsky.social
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12.10.2025 19:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œPortnoy’s Complaint” by Dan Grossman β€” Indy Correspondent Portnoy’s Complaint Not the Philip Roth novel  where the narrator cums on his sister’s bra  while wanking on the toilet but David Portnoy visiting Indy to do pizza reviews arriv...

Yes, yes, Bazbeaux Pizza (in Indianapolis) is among Dave Portnoy's least favorite pizzas, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. I mean, sloppy sex is still sex, right?
#bazbeaux, #pizza, #indianapolis, #carmel
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10.10.2025 15:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#gaza, #migration, #sandiego, #tijuana

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Oct. 8, 10:30 a.m., 2023: The day after Gaza on the U.S. -Mexico borderΒ  β€” Indy Correspondent The Day After Gaza on the U.S. Mexico Border Whiskey 8, an open air detention area across the border from Tijuana, is mostly quiet now. But two years ago it was often crowded with migrants who were...

Where I was two years ago today:
"After June 2024, when Joe Biden tightened the rules for claiming asylum, the stream of migrants dried up (and so did the need for the humanitarian aid station). But it was too late for Biden, and maybe too late for us."
www.indycorrespondent.org/borderdiary/...

08.10.2025 14:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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America 2025 or Chile 1973?

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Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.

This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.

Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.

03.10.2025 19:04 πŸ‘ 13729 πŸ” 4537 πŸ’¬ 357 πŸ“Œ 197

The highlight of this movie, and what made it work, was the relationship between the father and daughter in the movie. It is the daughter's story, in fact, that is the living, breathing heart of this story.

03.10.2025 12:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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One Battle After Another: this insane movie about leftwing radicals and rightwing institutions is a powerful exploration of US today β€” Indy Correspondent This article is from The Conversation, republished under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Just saw One Battle After Another last night in IMAX format, in San Diego, about 30 miles from where parts of it were shot, on (or near) Otay Mesa. The film is loosely based on the Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland. Republished from The Conversation.

www.indycorrespondent.org/articlesands...

26.09.2025 16:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nobody likes you. They hate you. P.S. Epstein was the only friend you ever had, and even he thought you were an idiot and a crook with no moral compass. Especially after you rooked him on a deal so you could launder dirty Russian money. You are, as you say, β€œa total disgrace.”

25.09.2025 13:05 πŸ‘ 333 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 14
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My Other Sister and I talk poetry and journalism (in San Diego) - NewsBreak My other sister and I walk through Chicano Park in Chicano Park, Barrio Logan, San Diego Prompted Shutterstock.ai image Check out Dan Grossman’s book Mindf

Is Depeche Mode poetry? Is Willie Nelson? Is poetry dead? Is it just masturbatory musing? Does it serve some kinda journalistic purpose? Fuck around and find out:

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25.09.2025 19:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please be careful, please be safe. You are a light in these dark times.

25.09.2025 17:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My Other Sister and I talk poetry and journalism (in San Diego) β€” Indy Correspondent Check out Dan Grossman’s book Mindfucking Roundabouts of Carmel, Indiana MY OTHER SISTER AND I TALK POETRY AND JOURNALISM (IN SAN DIEGO) INDY CORRESPONDENT: My name is Dan Grossman. I'm h...

Yes, yes, the conversation you've been waiting for direct from San Diego, about poetry and journalism and.... Depheche Mode! People, after all, are people, so why shouldn't we all just get along? #poetry, #journalism, #sandiego, #barriologan, #chicanopark
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25.09.2025 13:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wasn't sold on this drama. I found the whole Three Colors thing incredibly pretentious, claiming some great acknowledgment it didn't deserve, as if the long-lingering shot on his triptych of his beautiful 20-something actresses could open up the gates of existential profundity.

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A Return to Springfield, Ohio in a Time of Ethnic Cleansing β€” Indy Correspondent I returned to Springfield, Ohio on Monday, February 21, the day after the Trump administration canceled the extension of temporary protected status (TPS) for approximately 520,000 Haitian migrants in ...

I agree with you! I hope you're okay! I was up in the Pilsen neighborhood a few months ago, and it was so beautiful, kids out in the park, I could only think it was the calm before the storm.
Here's some reporting I've done recently www.indycorrespondent.org/blogsandpoet...

21.09.2025 10:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mindfucking Roundabouts of Carmel, Indiana Dan Grossman's collection of poetry and short prose 'Mindfucking Roundabouts of Carmel, Indiana,' is, in part, a meditation on memory that alternates between love and regret. It pierces the space-time...

Check out my book of poems and prose, available on LULU.com. "Dan Grossman navigates this highly recommended book like an 'uber' Uber driver ... J.T. Whitehead, writing in the Minderbinder Review of Books. #poetry, #fiction, #roundabouts, #carmel

www.lulu.com/shop/dan-gro...

19.09.2025 14:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This was not right, your being fired, for simply quoting Kirk himself, for some vile things that hit you in a very personal way!

15.09.2025 19:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Updated: Will Trump paint the border fence at Playas de Tijuana black? Border Patrol has no answer yet - NewsBreak Mural on Border Fence at Playas de Tijuana Photo by Maria Teresa Fernandez Originally published under title: Border Patrol Has No Answer Yet on Whether Tru

Check out my story about Trump wanting to go all #rollingstones on the #borderwall and paint it black. What does that mean for the murals on the border fence at Playas de #Tijuana? @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social, @humaneborders.bsky.social
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28.08.2025 02:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Border Patrol Has No Answer Yet on Whether Trump-Ordered Border Wall Painting Will Include Both Sides of Fence - NewsBreak Looking through thirty-foot high border fence into the beach in Tijuana, Mexico where a celebration by Friends of International Friendship Park was taking

Did you know that I'm a verified publisher on Newsbreak App?
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