Wendy Taylor
@wendytaylor13.bsky.social
Poet and Educator
MFA @QueensMFA. Work in @NewOhioReview
@hawaiipacificreview
@pinkpanthermag
MFA @QueensMFA. Work in @NewOhioReview
@hawaiipacificreview
@pinkpanthermag
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December 29, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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President Jimmy Carter has passed away at the age of 100. He was a symbol of what is best about America: kindness, compassion, duty and service. He will be missed, most of all by those who long for a return of that kind of country, led by a man with such strength of character.
December 29, 2024 at 9:15 PM
President Jimmy Carter has passed away at the age of 100. He was a symbol of what is best about America: kindness, compassion, duty and service. He will be missed, most of all by those who long for a return of that kind of country, led by a man with such strength of character.
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Holy Smokes. The only thing better than reading a Jorie Graham poem is reading Jorie Graham on the subject of poetry:
"A poem is an undergoing—you step into its river at one point in time, in one state of existence, and you exit it in an altogether other."
"A poem is an undergoing—you step into its river at one point in time, in one state of existence, and you exit it in an altogether other."
December 29, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Holy Smokes. The only thing better than reading a Jorie Graham poem is reading Jorie Graham on the subject of poetry:
"A poem is an undergoing—you step into its river at one point in time, in one state of existence, and you exit it in an altogether other."
"A poem is an undergoing—you step into its river at one point in time, in one state of existence, and you exit it in an altogether other."
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Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin. This piece is crucial.
Tomorrow will have been the 100th birthday of James Baldwin, so (because no one is infallible) here's him getting gently, lovingly, firmly schooled on the intersectionality of race and gender by one Nikki Giovanni
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg2t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg2t...
Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in conversation on 'SOUL!' (PART 2) | ALL ARTS Vault
Then 47-year-old novelist James Baldwin is interviewed by 28-year-old poet Nikki Giovanni in a two-part presentation of WNET’s “SOUL!" Taped in London in 197...
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December 10, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin. This piece is crucial.
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There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
Emily Dickinson, There's a certain Slant of light, (320)
Ph. Josef Koudelka
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
Emily Dickinson, There's a certain Slant of light, (320)
Ph. Josef Koudelka
December 9, 2024 at 4:54 PM
There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
Emily Dickinson, There's a certain Slant of light, (320)
Ph. Josef Koudelka
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
Emily Dickinson, There's a certain Slant of light, (320)
Ph. Josef Koudelka
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YOU CAN LISTEN TO @robert.thecure.com IN CONVERSATION WITH DANIELLE PERRY THIS SUNDAY ON SUNDAY MUSIC CLUB FROM 8PM VIA ABSOLUTERADIO.CO.UK (@absoluteradio.bsky.social)
December 9, 2024 at 3:40 PM
YOU CAN LISTEN TO @robert.thecure.com IN CONVERSATION WITH DANIELLE PERRY THIS SUNDAY ON SUNDAY MUSIC CLUB FROM 8PM VIA ABSOLUTERADIO.CO.UK (@absoluteradio.bsky.social)
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Grateful for Nikki Giovanni, all she brought to poetry, her students, the Black Arts Movement & for quite a while now, Virginia. All she will continue to bring. Love & history & place & a precise physicality of the personal.
Rest in power & poems.
Rest in power & poems.
December 10, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Grateful for Nikki Giovanni, all she brought to poetry, her students, the Black Arts Movement & for quite a while now, Virginia. All she will continue to bring. Love & history & place & a precise physicality of the personal.
Rest in power & poems.
Rest in power & poems.
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We're a bookstore. We're absolutely going to start the year with a hype train for upcoming releases.
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That's right. It's time for booksellers to go absolutely feral about upcoming titles with the Powell's 2024 Book Preview.
www.powells.com/post/lists/p...
🚃📚📚📚📚✨
That's right. It's time for booksellers to go absolutely feral about upcoming titles with the Powell's 2024 Book Preview.
www.powells.com/post/lists/p...
Powell's 2024 Book Preview: The First Quarter
If you know anything about the booksellers at Powell's Books, you know we love books and you know we love getting excited about books.
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January 5, 2024 at 6:19 PM
We're a bookstore. We're absolutely going to start the year with a hype train for upcoming releases.
🚃📚📚📚📚✨
That's right. It's time for booksellers to go absolutely feral about upcoming titles with the Powell's 2024 Book Preview.
www.powells.com/post/lists/p...
🚃📚📚📚📚✨
That's right. It's time for booksellers to go absolutely feral about upcoming titles with the Powell's 2024 Book Preview.
www.powells.com/post/lists/p...
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THIS is my Sentiment
December 9, 2024 at 2:05 PM
THIS is my Sentiment
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
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Cameron Awkward-Rich, "Meditations in an Emergency"
"Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming."
"Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming."
November 30, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Cameron Awkward-Rich, "Meditations in an Emergency"
"Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming."
"Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming."
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December 1, 2024 at 3:49 AM
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W.S. Merwin, "Thanks"
![Thanks W.S. Merwin /Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you/we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings/we are running out of the glass rooms/with our mouths full of food to look at the sky/and say thank you/we are standing by the water thanking it/standing by the windows looking out/in our directions//back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging/after funerals we are saying thank you/after the news of the dead/whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you//over telephones we are saying thank you/in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators/remembering wars and the police at the door/and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you/in the banks we are saying thank you/in the faces of the officials and the rich/and of all who will never change/we go on saying thank you thank you
[Last stanza in the next post]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oiux6ewo5e64e54jq56m7n6n/bafkreicwc272uvxdcesuaofyx3l3tfxekrc3kwmkhuipx44gap5h3z2abu@jpeg)
November 27, 2024 at 9:33 PM
W.S. Merwin, "Thanks"
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y'all, to borrow/amend from the great David Lynch: if I could explain the poems, I wouldn't need to write them.
November 25, 2024 at 9:53 PM
y'all, to borrow/amend from the great David Lynch: if I could explain the poems, I wouldn't need to write them.
The Cure 🖤
All I Ever Am
The Cure · Songs Of A Lost World · Song · 2024
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November 23, 2024 at 3:25 AM
The Cure 🖤
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I’m finding the community here far more engaging and respectful, while still wickedly funny. Happy to be migrating to these friendlier skies.
November 22, 2024 at 4:27 AM
I’m finding the community here far more engaging and respectful, while still wickedly funny. Happy to be migrating to these friendlier skies.
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📸 Kurt Cobain and his cat (1989). Photographer unknown.
November 15, 2024 at 10:45 AM
📸 Kurt Cobain and his cat (1989). Photographer unknown.
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Ada Limon showing how its done
The incomparable Ada Limón in the December issue of Poetry magazine. While Everything Else Was Falling Apart. #poetry
November 13, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Ada Limon showing how its done
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been thinking of this Layli Long Soldier poem every single day
November 14, 2024 at 3:16 AM
been thinking of this Layli Long Soldier poem every single day
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The secret ambition of all lyric poetry is to stop time.
—Charles Simic
—Charles Simic
November 17, 2024 at 3:44 PM
The secret ambition of all lyric poetry is to stop time.
—Charles Simic
—Charles Simic