Tim Singleton
@timsingleton122.bsky.social
This, that, and the other. Also HoCoPoLitSo.
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You kept telling us. We kept looking in the wrong place. Thanks for your persistence. The ghost of last year's contest that has been haunting our website has now been exercised. Sincere apologies for that inconvenience. You can now visit HoCoPoLitSo.org for a no-ghosts go at entering the contest.
October 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
You kept telling us. We kept looking in the wrong place. Thanks for your persistence. The ghost of last year's contest that has been haunting our website has now been exercised. Sincere apologies for that inconvenience. You can now visit HoCoPoLitSo.org for a no-ghosts go at entering the contest.
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Are you the next Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize winner? We are looking forward to seeing your work!
For all you need to know and to enter, visit:
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
For all you need to know and to enter, visit:
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
October 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Are you the next Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize winner? We are looking forward to seeing your work!
For all you need to know and to enter, visit:
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
For all you need to know and to enter, visit:
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
Ross Gay comes to Columbia on November 7th.
October 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Ross Gay comes to Columbia on November 7th.
America likes to be the best at things. These days it’s living up to that stature, being the best at being stupid.
September 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
America likes to be the best at things. These days it’s living up to that stature, being the best at being stupid.
The morals of corporate America are non existent. Profit over everything. And this isn’t even an important example. Use your imagination and scale up.
September 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The morals of corporate America are non existent. Profit over everything. And this isn’t even an important example. Use your imagination and scale up.
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Two opportunities to see Safia Elhillo -- author of the acclaimed Bright Red Fruit -- for #FREE tomorrow on the campus of Howard Community College.
12:30 p.m. Monteabaro Hall & streamed via Vimeo (link below).
6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Hall
All you need to know:
www.howardcc.edu/discover/art...
12:30 p.m. Monteabaro Hall & streamed via Vimeo (link below).
6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Hall
All you need to know:
www.howardcc.edu/discover/art...
September 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Two opportunities to see Safia Elhillo -- author of the acclaimed Bright Red Fruit -- for #FREE tomorrow on the campus of Howard Community College.
12:30 p.m. Monteabaro Hall & streamed via Vimeo (link below).
6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Hall
All you need to know:
www.howardcc.edu/discover/art...
12:30 p.m. Monteabaro Hall & streamed via Vimeo (link below).
6:00 p.m. Monteabaro Hall
All you need to know:
www.howardcc.edu/discover/art...
That day we look around and find we are all human.
September 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
That day we look around and find we are all human.
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September 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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New season of Wilde Readings launches Tuesday evening at Columbia's fantastic independent bookstore, Queen Takes Book (6955 Oakland Mills Rd E, Columbia, MD 21045). Featured readers and open mic. Starts at 7. We'd love to see you there.
September 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
New season of Wilde Readings launches Tuesday evening at Columbia's fantastic independent bookstore, Queen Takes Book (6955 Oakland Mills Rd E, Columbia, MD 21045). Featured readers and open mic. Starts at 7. We'd love to see you there.
Let's just call it by its full name, shall we: The Department of War on America, Peace, and Humanity. Who wants a peace prize only to go renaming things such? Nothing but a madman and his gathering of sycophant crusaders. We are in for it, folks.
September 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Let's just call it by its full name, shall we: The Department of War on America, Peace, and Humanity. Who wants a peace prize only to go renaming things such? Nothing but a madman and his gathering of sycophant crusaders. We are in for it, folks.
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In our latest issue, poet and essayist Molly McCully Brown unpacks the value of a creative writing degree, “Think of it in early readers accumulated: The one you’ll e-mail for the next thirty years with your earliest drafts and subject headings like ‘This may be very bad.’” at.pw.org/ValueOfADegree
September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In our latest issue, poet and essayist Molly McCully Brown unpacks the value of a creative writing degree, “Think of it in early readers accumulated: The one you’ll e-mail for the next thirty years with your earliest drafts and subject headings like ‘This may be very bad.’” at.pw.org/ValueOfADegree
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Held annually in loving memory of HoCoPoLitSo’s co-founder, the 2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize submission window is now open.
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
August 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Held annually in loving memory of HoCoPoLitSo’s co-founder, the 2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize submission window is now open.
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
hocopolitso.org/2025/08/08/t...
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“There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
August 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
The pause and preen of a hummingbird, and then the explosion back into its hummingbird self.
August 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The pause and preen of a hummingbird, and then the explosion back into its hummingbird self.
Just saw Paul Revere galloping through the streets of Washington DC screaming out a warning to its citizens, "The Red Coats are coming! The Red Coats are coming...." after King Bozo's morning bloviation.
August 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Just saw Paul Revere galloping through the streets of Washington DC screaming out a warning to its citizens, "The Red Coats are coming! The Red Coats are coming...." after King Bozo's morning bloviation.
Watching America go nuts over the Cold Play & ignore daily atrocities this very country is participant in, well, that’s all anyone needs to know about US right now. We have transformed into a cohort of monsters supporting opportunist & powerhungry madmen. America, get your head out of Trump’s ass.
July 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Watching America go nuts over the Cold Play & ignore daily atrocities this very country is participant in, well, that’s all anyone needs to know about US right now. We have transformed into a cohort of monsters supporting opportunist & powerhungry madmen. America, get your head out of Trump’s ass.
humidity and heat—
quiet as their shadows, crows
rising from a cornfield
quiet as their shadows, crows
rising from a cornfield
July 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
humidity and heat—
quiet as their shadows, crows
rising from a cornfield
quiet as their shadows, crows
rising from a cornfield
In Hate we trust.
July 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
In Hate we trust.
Wanting the same kind of @bsky.app attention as the catbird, a Carolina wren lands under my chair to chirp his case. A mocking bird takes them all on. Cooler air prevails, today, and the birds are on it.
July 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Wanting the same kind of @bsky.app attention as the catbird, a Carolina wren lands under my chair to chirp his case. A mocking bird takes them all on. Cooler air prevails, today, and the birds are on it.
Summer suet feeder and the catbird meows and meows to keep all away. Or maybe it is just the feral joy of having this other personality inside a cage of feathers. Meow. Meow. It's a noisy boast, but the suet and the morning seem to be his, a slant of sun pointing this out.
July 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Summer suet feeder and the catbird meows and meows to keep all away. Or maybe it is just the feral joy of having this other personality inside a cage of feathers. Meow. Meow. It's a noisy boast, but the suet and the morning seem to be his, a slant of sun pointing this out.
Oh, good grief. "Reading in public – not cool. Or at least “performative reading”, as it’s been dubbed on social media, is worthy of ridicule." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Is it OK to read Infinite Jest in public? Why the internet hates ‘performative reading’
Posts mocking strangers for cracking open classics have become popular. So where are we supposed to read them?
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Oh, good grief. "Reading in public – not cool. Or at least “performative reading”, as it’s been dubbed on social media, is worthy of ridicule." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Weatherchange and birdsong through the open windows.
June 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Weatherchange and birdsong through the open windows.
The way an oscillating fan bullies the humidity this way, then that, this way, then that.
June 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
The way an oscillating fan bullies the humidity this way, then that, this way, then that.
No one wins a holy war. All the gods know this.
June 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
No one wins a holy war. All the gods know this.