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Getting ready to ditch all other social media platforms, and I’m dedicating this one to my poetry and maybe some essays if I’m feeling spicy.
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It's your birthday, Duane.
Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
anthropocenepoet.bsky.social
Another ekphrastic poem! This time with a Friday Kahlo painting: www.fridakahlo.org/what-the-wat...

Also, I love Jessica Piazza’s ekphrastic poetry book “This Is Not A Sky,” which everyone should check out!

#poetry #ekphrasis #booksky
December 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
anthropocenepoet.bsky.social
James Joyce when he wrote *those* letters to his wife
bshuman.bsky.social human @bshuman.bsky.social · 18d
putting the ass in classic
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
Joint Statement on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix The world's largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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On the arrival of John Berger’s centenary, the Verso Book Club will be hosting a conversation on his vital contributions to worlds of art history, politics, translation, and more.
Ways of Seeing: In Celebration of John Berger | The Verso Book Club Re
On the arrival of Berger’s centenary, the Verso Book Club will be hosting a conversation on his vital contributions to worlds of art history, politics, translation, and more.
www.versobooks.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
anthropocenepoet.bsky.social
An ekphrastic poem! 🎨

Anybody else freaked out about AI and the manufacturing of consent happening on social media?

#ekphrasis #capitalism #ai #technology #manufacturedconsent #art #corporations #environment #booksky #poems #poetry
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I’m legit in awe of the concept of poems that are too dangerous to fall into the wrong hands
rachelhands.com Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 23d
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Sometimes we need to perpetuate our own crisis to move forward in life, the writer-director Noah Baumbach says, in a new interview.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/cxs3Y8
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
anthropocenepoet.bsky.social
A poem I wrote as an adult processing grief from childhood. I lost my brother when I was 10, and my grandma (who I lived with for most of my life) at 15. I dream of them sometimes.

#poetry #grief #astrology #witchy #poems #death #grieving #cycles
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM