Kevin Anthony Brown
@kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social
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«Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History» (Parlor Press, 2024)
Literary Arts | Performing Arts | The Art of Translation | Visual Arts
«Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History» (Parlor Press, 2024)
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Title: «Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History»
Publisher: Parlor Press
Publication Date: 16 July 2024
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Red Hook Star-Review: www.star-revue.com/quinn-on-boo...
Massachusetts Review: www.massreview.org/node/11751
Publisher: Parlor Press
Publication Date: 16 July 2024
Order Page Link: parlorpress.com/products/cou...
Red Hook Star-Review: www.star-revue.com/quinn-on-boo...
Massachusetts Review: www.massreview.org/node/11751
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Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.
February 1, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.
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THIS 👇
"You're not alone in being able to figure out how we push back and come up with new solutions."
"You're not alone in being able to figure out how we push back and come up with new solutions."
February 14, 2026 at 11:03 PM
THIS 👇
"You're not alone in being able to figure out how we push back and come up with new solutions."
"You're not alone in being able to figure out how we push back and come up with new solutions."
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Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw
February 14, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw
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Post an image you can hear.
FOREVER funny!🤣🤣🤣
FOREVER funny!🤣🤣🤣
February 16, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Post an image you can hear.
FOREVER funny!🤣🤣🤣
FOREVER funny!🤣🤣🤣
@davidnice.bsky.social
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Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries
15 February 2026
Circumstances, Events & Situations
I grew up with hundreds of vinyls on Old School Dual turntables with JBL waffle-front 12-inch speakers and 200-watt Kenwood Amps, pre-amp and tuners.
My childhood sounded NICE.
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Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries
15 February 2026
Circumstances, Events & Situations
I grew up with hundreds of vinyls on Old School Dual turntables with JBL waffle-front 12-inch speakers and 200-watt Kenwood Amps, pre-amp and tuners.
My childhood sounded NICE.
February 16, 2026 at 5:31 AM
@davidnice.bsky.social
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Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries
15 February 2026
Circumstances, Events & Situations
I grew up with hundreds of vinyls on Old School Dual turntables with JBL waffle-front 12-inch speakers and 200-watt Kenwood Amps, pre-amp and tuners.
My childhood sounded NICE.
(1/1)
Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries
15 February 2026
Circumstances, Events & Situations
I grew up with hundreds of vinyls on Old School Dual turntables with JBL waffle-front 12-inch speakers and 200-watt Kenwood Amps, pre-amp and tuners.
My childhood sounded NICE.
Replacement theory is a real and insidious thing in America.
Fairly recent arrivals--black, red, yellow, white--all believe that whatever shit-hole country they came from is "replaceable".
Hence, no sense of shared history.
Hence, a highly fractured politics easily manipulated along race-lines.
Fairly recent arrivals--black, red, yellow, white--all believe that whatever shit-hole country they came from is "replaceable".
Hence, no sense of shared history.
Hence, a highly fractured politics easily manipulated along race-lines.
February 16, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Replacement theory is a real and insidious thing in America.
Fairly recent arrivals--black, red, yellow, white--all believe that whatever shit-hole country they came from is "replaceable".
Hence, no sense of shared history.
Hence, a highly fractured politics easily manipulated along race-lines.
Fairly recent arrivals--black, red, yellow, white--all believe that whatever shit-hole country they came from is "replaceable".
Hence, no sense of shared history.
Hence, a highly fractured politics easily manipulated along race-lines.
Reason The US is a barbarous country is it has a slum-lord mentality and actually, fucking, believes everbody wants to BE them.
When the majority of Americans can't even name a state capital, much less a world capital..
Come the fuck on, does anybody really BE 45/47?
White people?
When the majority of Americans can't even name a state capital, much less a world capital..
Come the fuck on, does anybody really BE 45/47?
White people?
February 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Reason The US is a barbarous country is it has a slum-lord mentality and actually, fucking, believes everbody wants to BE them.
When the majority of Americans can't even name a state capital, much less a world capital..
Come the fuck on, does anybody really BE 45/47?
White people?
When the majority of Americans can't even name a state capital, much less a world capital..
Come the fuck on, does anybody really BE 45/47?
White people?
"Humankind cannot bear very much reality"
T.S. Eliot
"Burnt Norton" (from Four Quartets), 1935.
T.S. Eliot
"Burnt Norton" (from Four Quartets), 1935.
February 16, 2026 at 1:17 AM
"Humankind cannot bear very much reality"
T.S. Eliot
"Burnt Norton" (from Four Quartets), 1935.
T.S. Eliot
"Burnt Norton" (from Four Quartets), 1935.
Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries
15 February 2026
Culture, History, Politics, Society & Sports
Rodney Cline Carew (b. 1945) Panamanian-American professional baseball player and coach.
Minnesota Twins, 1967–1978
15 February 2026
Culture, History, Politics, Society & Sports
Rodney Cline Carew (b. 1945) Panamanian-American professional baseball player and coach.
Minnesota Twins, 1967–1978
February 16, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries
15 February 2026
Culture, History, Politics, Society & Sports
Rodney Cline Carew (b. 1945) Panamanian-American professional baseball player and coach.
Minnesota Twins, 1967–1978
15 February 2026
Culture, History, Politics, Society & Sports
Rodney Cline Carew (b. 1945) Panamanian-American professional baseball player and coach.
Minnesota Twins, 1967–1978
Ma mamma fried chicken v. Kentucky Fried Chicken.
You consume Diet Coke and McDonalds all day every day, you're not even "complicit".
65 million US voters endorse that, even Hitler would be disgusted.
Hitler turned his back on Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics.
Crackers hate black Superiority.
You consume Diet Coke and McDonalds all day every day, you're not even "complicit".
65 million US voters endorse that, even Hitler would be disgusted.
Hitler turned his back on Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics.
Crackers hate black Superiority.
February 16, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Ma mamma fried chicken v. Kentucky Fried Chicken.
You consume Diet Coke and McDonalds all day every day, you're not even "complicit".
65 million US voters endorse that, even Hitler would be disgusted.
Hitler turned his back on Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics.
Crackers hate black Superiority.
You consume Diet Coke and McDonalds all day every day, you're not even "complicit".
65 million US voters endorse that, even Hitler would be disgusted.
Hitler turned his back on Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics.
Crackers hate black Superiority.
I have MUCH bigger fish to fry.
But here's how everyday-complicity works.
You really wanna freeze out Minnesota?
Shut KFC the fuck down.
4 thighs, medium fries and a sugar-drink for 18$
People need to keep auto-autocracy 100% real.
"Performative" is the right word here.
Americans hate change.
But here's how everyday-complicity works.
You really wanna freeze out Minnesota?
Shut KFC the fuck down.
4 thighs, medium fries and a sugar-drink for 18$
People need to keep auto-autocracy 100% real.
"Performative" is the right word here.
Americans hate change.
February 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM
I have MUCH bigger fish to fry.
But here's how everyday-complicity works.
You really wanna freeze out Minnesota?
Shut KFC the fuck down.
4 thighs, medium fries and a sugar-drink for 18$
People need to keep auto-autocracy 100% real.
"Performative" is the right word here.
Americans hate change.
But here's how everyday-complicity works.
You really wanna freeze out Minnesota?
Shut KFC the fuck down.
4 thighs, medium fries and a sugar-drink for 18$
People need to keep auto-autocracy 100% real.
"Performative" is the right word here.
Americans hate change.
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Penguins’ Sidney Crosby totals 3 points as Canada routs France
https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/459197/
A look at how members of the Pittsburgh Penguins are performing in the Winter Olympics: Penguins forward Sidney…
https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/459197/
A look at how members of the Pittsburgh Penguins are performing in the Winter Olympics: Penguins forward Sidney…
Penguins’ Sidney Crosby totals 3 points as Canada routs France - NHL
A look at how members of the Pittsburgh Penguins are performing in the Winter Olympics:
www.rawchili.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Penguins’ Sidney Crosby totals 3 points as Canada routs France
https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/459197/
A look at how members of the Pittsburgh Penguins are performing in the Winter Olympics: Penguins forward Sidney…
https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/459197/
A look at how members of the Pittsburgh Penguins are performing in the Winter Olympics: Penguins forward Sidney…
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US beat Germany, fall short of top seeding in men's Olympic ice hockey reut.rs/4aSPwNt
US beat Germany, fall short of top seeding in men's Olympic ice hockey
The United States beat Germany 5-1 but came up short of earning the top seeding from the preliminary stage of the men's Winter Olympic ice hockey tournament on Sunday, as they finished second-best to Canada heading into the knockout stages.
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February 15, 2026 at 11:25 PM
US beat Germany, fall short of top seeding in men's Olympic ice hockey reut.rs/4aSPwNt
Either be part of the solution or be part of the problem.
First troller who reasonably posts that I (a resistance writer) Kevin Athony Brown am part of the problem and not the solution, I delete my Blue Sky post--quick, fast and in a Manhattan hurry.
kevinabrown.com/essays
First troller who reasonably posts that I (a resistance writer) Kevin Athony Brown am part of the problem and not the solution, I delete my Blue Sky post--quick, fast and in a Manhattan hurry.
kevinabrown.com/essays
Essays | Kevin A. Brown
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February 15, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Either be part of the solution or be part of the problem.
First troller who reasonably posts that I (a resistance writer) Kevin Athony Brown am part of the problem and not the solution, I delete my Blue Sky post--quick, fast and in a Manhattan hurry.
kevinabrown.com/essays
First troller who reasonably posts that I (a resistance writer) Kevin Athony Brown am part of the problem and not the solution, I delete my Blue Sky post--quick, fast and in a Manhattan hurry.
kevinabrown.com/essays
Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries
15 February 2026
Family, Friends, Lovers, Colleague, Acquaintances
Left a VM for my son, whom I haven't hugged in 10 years.
HE chose to cut ties with me.
I'm 65. He's 21.
Never gonna be sorry for taking the high road.
My mathematician son is smart.
Not wise.
15 February 2026
Family, Friends, Lovers, Colleague, Acquaintances
Left a VM for my son, whom I haven't hugged in 10 years.
HE chose to cut ties with me.
I'm 65. He's 21.
Never gonna be sorry for taking the high road.
My mathematician son is smart.
Not wise.
February 15, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries
15 February 2026
Family, Friends, Lovers, Colleague, Acquaintances
Left a VM for my son, whom I haven't hugged in 10 years.
HE chose to cut ties with me.
I'm 65. He's 21.
Never gonna be sorry for taking the high road.
My mathematician son is smart.
Not wise.
15 February 2026
Family, Friends, Lovers, Colleague, Acquaintances
Left a VM for my son, whom I haven't hugged in 10 years.
HE chose to cut ties with me.
I'm 65. He's 21.
Never gonna be sorry for taking the high road.
My mathematician son is smart.
Not wise.
Opposing editors fear a writer like Kevin Anthony Brown, sober.
Snarl, skills, attitude, CENTURIES of generational talent.
Unfortunately (for them) I believe 45/47 is a historical figure worthy of serious study.
Just wait till you hear what I have to say about Stendhal.
Whom POTUS 44 has read.
Snarl, skills, attitude, CENTURIES of generational talent.
Unfortunately (for them) I believe 45/47 is a historical figure worthy of serious study.
Just wait till you hear what I have to say about Stendhal.
Whom POTUS 44 has read.
February 15, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Opposing editors fear a writer like Kevin Anthony Brown, sober.
Snarl, skills, attitude, CENTURIES of generational talent.
Unfortunately (for them) I believe 45/47 is a historical figure worthy of serious study.
Just wait till you hear what I have to say about Stendhal.
Whom POTUS 44 has read.
Snarl, skills, attitude, CENTURIES of generational talent.
Unfortunately (for them) I believe 45/47 is a historical figure worthy of serious study.
Just wait till you hear what I have to say about Stendhal.
Whom POTUS 44 has read.
@iquitcigs.bsky.social 87.7K followers 524.4K following 4.4K posts
Reassuring numbers!
How many of you have quit drinking, cold-turkey?
I don't enjoy alcohol.
Alcohol jacks my joy.
So, why not just stop?
Doesn't work that way😒
Addiction is inter-generational.
This is context, not an excuse.
Reassuring numbers!
How many of you have quit drinking, cold-turkey?
I don't enjoy alcohol.
Alcohol jacks my joy.
So, why not just stop?
Doesn't work that way😒
Addiction is inter-generational.
This is context, not an excuse.
February 15, 2026 at 10:43 PM
@iquitcigs.bsky.social 87.7K followers 524.4K following 4.4K posts
Reassuring numbers!
How many of you have quit drinking, cold-turkey?
I don't enjoy alcohol.
Alcohol jacks my joy.
So, why not just stop?
Doesn't work that way😒
Addiction is inter-generational.
This is context, not an excuse.
Reassuring numbers!
How many of you have quit drinking, cold-turkey?
I don't enjoy alcohol.
Alcohol jacks my joy.
So, why not just stop?
Doesn't work that way😒
Addiction is inter-generational.
This is context, not an excuse.
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a prolific writer who fought for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery.
She was one of the first Black people to publish a short story, authored many celebrated poetry collections, and helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
She was one of the first Black people to publish a short story, authored many celebrated poetry collections, and helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
February 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a prolific writer who fought for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery.
She was one of the first Black people to publish a short story, authored many celebrated poetry collections, and helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
She was one of the first Black people to publish a short story, authored many celebrated poetry collections, and helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
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‘Niels Lyhne’ by Jens Peter Jacobsen, an essential Danish novel of art and failure, love and doom. Much admired by Rilke, Joyce, Ibsen, Freud, Giacometti and T. Mann. This translation by Tiina Nunnally, the first in English by the great Australian novelist Ethel Florence (Henry Handel Richardson).
February 15, 2026 at 3:51 PM
‘Niels Lyhne’ by Jens Peter Jacobsen, an essential Danish novel of art and failure, love and doom. Much admired by Rilke, Joyce, Ibsen, Freud, Giacometti and T. Mann. This translation by Tiina Nunnally, the first in English by the great Australian novelist Ethel Florence (Henry Handel Richardson).
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Tomorrow. morning, I will talk to a history class at SMU about a book I wrote 20 years ago called “White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001.” In the evening, I will participate in this panel discussion with a Dallas civil rights icon, the Rev. Peter Johnson.
February 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Tomorrow. morning, I will talk to a history class at SMU about a book I wrote 20 years ago called “White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001.” In the evening, I will participate in this panel discussion with a Dallas civil rights icon, the Rev. Peter Johnson.
Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries
17 July 2025
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I listen daily to coverage about Israel/Ukraine.
I ask myself what about South America, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, the Caribbean?
Reporters and broadcaster on BBC America simply can't continue to mask this fundamentally glaring problem.
17 July 2025
(1/1)
I listen daily to coverage about Israel/Ukraine.
I ask myself what about South America, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, the Caribbean?
Reporters and broadcaster on BBC America simply can't continue to mask this fundamentally glaring problem.
February 15, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries
17 July 2025
(1/1)
I listen daily to coverage about Israel/Ukraine.
I ask myself what about South America, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, the Caribbean?
Reporters and broadcaster on BBC America simply can't continue to mask this fundamentally glaring problem.
17 July 2025
(1/1)
I listen daily to coverage about Israel/Ukraine.
I ask myself what about South America, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, the Caribbean?
Reporters and broadcaster on BBC America simply can't continue to mask this fundamentally glaring problem.
Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries
3 October 2025
Culture, History, Politics, Society
Right-wing reaction didn't come out of nowhere.
Vast numbers of US citizens voted for dictatorship.
If vote is the right word for the choices a rigged system gave to an under-educated electorate.
#politics #USA
3 October 2025
Culture, History, Politics, Society
Right-wing reaction didn't come out of nowhere.
Vast numbers of US citizens voted for dictatorship.
If vote is the right word for the choices a rigged system gave to an under-educated electorate.
#politics #USA
February 15, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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Rubio to visit eastern Europe, bolster ties with pro-Trump leaders reut.rs/3Mw64l2
Rubio to visit eastern Europe, bolster ties with pro-Trump leaders
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to begin a two-day trip on Sunday, to bolster ties with Slovakia and Hungary, whose conservative leaders, often at odds with other European Union countries, have warm ties with President Donald Trump.
reut.rs
February 15, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Rubio to visit eastern Europe, bolster ties with pro-Trump leaders reut.rs/3Mw64l2
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How I unravelled the stories and legends woven on the old Silk Road
How I unravelled the stories and legends woven on the old Silk Road
www.thetimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:16 AM
How I unravelled the stories and legends woven on the old Silk Road
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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
February 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.