Nancy Vieira Couto
@coutopoet.bsky.social
Poet. Amateur genealogist. Blogger at nancyvieiracouto.com. I never meant to sail so goddam far. I was just doing my job.
For some reason, I've been thinking about John Peter Zenger recently.
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Unexpected Verdict: The Trial of John Peter Zenger
YouTube video by N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
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September 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
For some reason, I've been thinking about John Peter Zenger recently.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab8l...
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Happy International Cat Day to everyone who ever had a cat or was grey in the dark.
August 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Happy International Cat Day to everyone who ever had a cat or was grey in the dark.
A song for our time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpp5...
Deportee (Woody's Home Tape)
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August 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A song for our time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpp5...
Fernando Pessoa’s table at Café Martinho in Lisbon. Hat, cup, and saucer, still waiting for his return.
April 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Fernando Pessoa’s table at Café Martinho in Lisbon. Hat, cup, and saucer, still waiting for his return.
Enjoying Lisbon’s beautiful calçadas. The sidewalks and squares appear to undulate.
April 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Enjoying Lisbon’s beautiful calçadas. The sidewalks and squares appear to undulate.
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Returning to this beauty:
March 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Returning to this beauty:
Listening to the Grateful Dead on my morning walk, I realized that "Throwing Stones" (from In the Dark, 1987) is still eerily relevant. Ashes, ashes, all fall down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRNv...
Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones (Official Music Video)
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March 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Listening to the Grateful Dead on my morning walk, I realized that "Throwing Stones" (from In the Dark, 1987) is still eerily relevant. Ashes, ashes, all fall down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRNv...
The Victorians believed that pigs bring good luck. Maybe they were on to something. The ball has dropped. Let’s dance!
January 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The Victorians believed that pigs bring good luck. Maybe they were on to something. The ball has dropped. Let’s dance!
We have a tree!
December 16, 2024 at 2:56 AM
We have a tree!
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Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts diner was immortalized in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant,” died on Thursday — just a week before Thanksgiving, the holiday during which the story at the center of the song takes place. She was 83.
Alice Brock, Restaurant Owner Made Famous by a Song, Dies at 83
Arlo Guthrie’s antiwar staple “Alice’s Restaurant” was inspired by a Thanksgiving Day visit to her diner in western Massachusetts.
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November 24, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts diner was immortalized in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant,” died on Thursday — just a week before Thanksgiving, the holiday during which the story at the center of the song takes place. She was 83.
Days come and days go. There are days you never forget, even if they happened a long time ago. Check out my new blog post. nancyvieiracouto.com/2024/11/16/o...
On the Day Of My Brother’s Birth
Vovó (circa 1950) On the day of my brother’s birth, I woke up in my grandmother’s brass bed to the sounds of a whispered conversation in two different languages, both of which I understood, sort of…
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November 16, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Days come and days go. There are days you never forget, even if they happened a long time ago. Check out my new blog post. nancyvieiracouto.com/2024/11/16/o...
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Hey, y’all, I’ve been on BlueSky for a while and wish I had this guide when I joined so I thought I’d share it.
We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!
It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...
>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...
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It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...
>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...
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The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
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November 14, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Hey, y’all, I’ve been on BlueSky for a while and wish I had this guide when I joined so I thought I’d share it.
Lots of interesting stuff here.
PSA for writers!
If you're writing a period story set in the US between the 1700s and 1900s, this website has a list of typical wages, house prices, and cost of food, clothing etc. across four centuries, with links to historic documents as sources!
libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwag...
If you're writing a period story set in the US between the 1700s and 1900s, this website has a list of typical wages, house prices, and cost of food, clothing etc. across four centuries, with links to historic documents as sources!
libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwag...
Library Guides: Prices and Wages by Decade: Intro
Links to government documents and primary sources listing retail prices for products and services, as well as wages for common occupations. This guide points to wages and consumer prices reported in p...
libraryguides.missouri.edu
November 12, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Lots of interesting stuff here.
Let’s bring The Essential C. D. Wright into the world! If you care about her work, you may want to participate in this project. givebutter.com/theessential...
The Essential C.D. Wright
Help Copper Canyon Press take the first step in honoring essential author C.D. Wright.
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October 17, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Let’s bring The Essential C. D. Wright into the world! If you care about her work, you may want to participate in this project. givebutter.com/theessential...
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Lyn Hejinian, 1941-2024
"Windows: how stupidly the intensity
of glass returns to us the terror of love."
"Windows: how stupidly the intensity
of glass returns to us the terror of love."
Time of Tyranny, 49
We live in toppled times under a feat of tyranny; let's not
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February 25, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Lyn Hejinian, 1941-2024
"Windows: how stupidly the intensity
of glass returns to us the terror of love."
"Windows: how stupidly the intensity
of glass returns to us the terror of love."
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Drunks in midnight choirs
January 28, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Drunks in midnight choirs
December 26, 2023: 365 days till Christmas! The pressure is off.
December 27, 2023 at 1:24 AM
December 26, 2023: 365 days till Christmas! The pressure is off.