DJcontraption AKA Dahron J
@dahron-anneliese.bsky.social
Chaplain-y cyclist consistently calms chaos, cracks contradictions, collects conundrums, critiques culture, challenges consensus, committed carer🏳️⚧
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I don't know about you—but I'm ready to keep building on the good work of the recent elections; to keep ramping up the positive calls to action heard—& spoken!—at the recent No Kings Day; & I'm rarin' to keep forging ahead w/any & all efforts that move us towards places of fuller flourishing! (1/4)
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🤷🏼♀️Tried to watch the recording of today’s marketing pitch, but it’s unavailable.
1) Elon is a narcissistic con man, thus public trust is low & elected officials’ skepticism is high.
2) #TeslaTunnel = inefficient, touristic novelty that creates numerous problems and solves 👏absolutely👏nothing👏.
1) Elon is a narcissistic con man, thus public trust is low & elected officials’ skepticism is high.
2) #TeslaTunnel = inefficient, touristic novelty that creates numerous problems and solves 👏absolutely👏nothing👏.
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
🤷🏼♀️Tried to watch the recording of today’s marketing pitch, but it’s unavailable.
1) Elon is a narcissistic con man, thus public trust is low & elected officials’ skepticism is high.
2) #TeslaTunnel = inefficient, touristic novelty that creates numerous problems and solves 👏absolutely👏nothing👏.
1) Elon is a narcissistic con man, thus public trust is low & elected officials’ skepticism is high.
2) #TeslaTunnel = inefficient, touristic novelty that creates numerous problems and solves 👏absolutely👏nothing👏.
...note calling out for the shape of music.
For the coin in the slot to unlock the gears.
For the egg with a horse in it.
Some people are born addicted to sense.
Some are born infected with silence.
Poetry is an-ant-ant-anti-antibiotic.
“A horse pill.”
fr—Egg Tooth
Benjamin Garcia
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For the coin in the slot to unlock the gears.
For the egg with a horse in it.
Some people are born addicted to sense.
Some are born infected with silence.
Poetry is an-ant-ant-anti-antibiotic.
“A horse pill.”
fr—Egg Tooth
Benjamin Garcia
bit.ly/4p31Yz4
Curated Conversation(s): Benjamin Garcia with Dana Levin
Benjamin Garcia discusses his debut poetry collection, Thrown In the Throat, with Dana Levin. Curated Conversation(s): a Latinx Poetry Show is a monthly interview with a Latinx poet who has recently published their first book. The debut poets themselves have selected their interlocutors. ----- Benjamin Garcia’s first collection, Thrown in the Throat (Milkweed Editions), was selected by Kazim Ali for the 2019 National Poetry Series. He works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York, where he received the Jill Gonzalez Health Educator Award recognizing contributions to HIV treatment and prevention. A CantoMundo and Lambda Literary fellow, he serves as faculty with Alma College’s low-residency MFA program. His poems and essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in: AGNI, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Lithub, and New England Review. Find him at benjamingarciapoet.com and @bengarciapoet. Dana Levin’s fourth book is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), a finalist for the Rilke Prize. Previous books include In the Surgical Theatre, Wedding Day, and Sky Burial, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Her fellowships and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, as well as from the Lannan, Rona Jaffe, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin currently serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis, where she lives. danalevinpoet.com ----- Curated Conversation(s): a Latinx Poetry Show is a collaboration between The Writer’s Center, Duende District, Poet Lore, and Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies. This project is funded by the Poetry Foundation and the generosity of individual donors.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
...note calling out for the shape of music.
For the coin in the slot to unlock the gears.
For the egg with a horse in it.
Some people are born addicted to sense.
Some are born infected with silence.
Poetry is an-ant-ant-anti-antibiotic.
“A horse pill.”
fr—Egg Tooth
Benjamin Garcia
bit.ly/4p31Yz4
For the coin in the slot to unlock the gears.
For the egg with a horse in it.
Some people are born addicted to sense.
Some are born infected with silence.
Poetry is an-ant-ant-anti-antibiotic.
“A horse pill.”
fr—Egg Tooth
Benjamin Garcia
bit.ly/4p31Yz4
Hard by the Mexic sea;
Where date, and spice & lemon
Doth blow perpetually,
By that enchanted palace
That looks out over the sea.
Tomorrow? That’s cruel, Alice,
Why speak of a day that is not?
That spoils the bliss of living,
Makes mine a miserable lot
fr—Alice
Samuel Alfred Beadle
bit.ly/47ZYC9S
Where date, and spice & lemon
Doth blow perpetually,
By that enchanted palace
That looks out over the sea.
Tomorrow? That’s cruel, Alice,
Why speak of a day that is not?
That spoils the bliss of living,
Makes mine a miserable lot
fr—Alice
Samuel Alfred Beadle
bit.ly/47ZYC9S
Beadle, Samuel Alfred | Mississippi Encyclopedia
Samuel Alfred Beadle was born into slavery in Georgia on 17 August 1857 and was brought to Rankin County, Mississippi, by his mother at the end of the Civil War. Little is known about Beadle’s life be...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Hard by the Mexic sea;
Where date, and spice & lemon
Doth blow perpetually,
By that enchanted palace
That looks out over the sea.
Tomorrow? That’s cruel, Alice,
Why speak of a day that is not?
That spoils the bliss of living,
Makes mine a miserable lot
fr—Alice
Samuel Alfred Beadle
bit.ly/47ZYC9S
Where date, and spice & lemon
Doth blow perpetually,
By that enchanted palace
That looks out over the sea.
Tomorrow? That’s cruel, Alice,
Why speak of a day that is not?
That spoils the bliss of living,
Makes mine a miserable lot
fr—Alice
Samuel Alfred Beadle
bit.ly/47ZYC9S
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NEW EMERGENCY SESSION AT #AARSBL25
"Emergency Session: ICE Enforcement in Sacred Spaces"
4.00-5.00 PM ET, Hynes Convention Center 208
Join us for an emergency town hall to discuss steps to take in response to threats of increasing immigration enforcement, including on and around sacred grounds.
"Emergency Session: ICE Enforcement in Sacred Spaces"
4.00-5.00 PM ET, Hynes Convention Center 208
Join us for an emergency town hall to discuss steps to take in response to threats of increasing immigration enforcement, including on and around sacred grounds.
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
NEW EMERGENCY SESSION AT #AARSBL25
"Emergency Session: ICE Enforcement in Sacred Spaces"
4.00-5.00 PM ET, Hynes Convention Center 208
Join us for an emergency town hall to discuss steps to take in response to threats of increasing immigration enforcement, including on and around sacred grounds.
"Emergency Session: ICE Enforcement in Sacred Spaces"
4.00-5.00 PM ET, Hynes Convention Center 208
Join us for an emergency town hall to discuss steps to take in response to threats of increasing immigration enforcement, including on and around sacred grounds.
Thank you to @kff.org & @drishp.bsky.social for calling this out.
Even as talking about the surveillance of data may feel tin-foil-hat, we ignore the issue at grave peril--for the persons that are supposed to be targeted, as well as ourselves; cf. all 3 links in this thread and RT:
(1/3)
Even as talking about the surveillance of data may feel tin-foil-hat, we ignore the issue at grave peril--for the persons that are supposed to be targeted, as well as ourselves; cf. all 3 links in this thread and RT:
(1/3)
⚡ KFF’s Drishti Pillai reacts to a notice the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued that it will begin sharing Medicaid data it receives from states with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for immigration enforcement. https://on.kff.org/3LVA1dK #QuickTake
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Thank you to @kff.org & @drishp.bsky.social for calling this out.
Even as talking about the surveillance of data may feel tin-foil-hat, we ignore the issue at grave peril--for the persons that are supposed to be targeted, as well as ourselves; cf. all 3 links in this thread and RT:
(1/3)
Even as talking about the surveillance of data may feel tin-foil-hat, we ignore the issue at grave peril--for the persons that are supposed to be targeted, as well as ourselves; cf. all 3 links in this thread and RT:
(1/3)
there
another pass of I don’t know what
door panes squaring its flit
that ghost is the second possibility I consider
is telling telling I say to myself
I could not believe in ghosts but I don’t see
any reason to
fr—flit [sparrow]
Lisa Bickmore
bit.ly/483GlIZ
another pass of I don’t know what
door panes squaring its flit
that ghost is the second possibility I consider
is telling telling I say to myself
I could not believe in ghosts but I don’t see
any reason to
fr—flit [sparrow]
Lisa Bickmore
bit.ly/483GlIZ
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November 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
there
another pass of I don’t know what
door panes squaring its flit
that ghost is the second possibility I consider
is telling telling I say to myself
I could not believe in ghosts but I don’t see
any reason to
fr—flit [sparrow]
Lisa Bickmore
bit.ly/483GlIZ
another pass of I don’t know what
door panes squaring its flit
that ghost is the second possibility I consider
is telling telling I say to myself
I could not believe in ghosts but I don’t see
any reason to
fr—flit [sparrow]
Lisa Bickmore
bit.ly/483GlIZ
Dashboard messages:
A little weathered
but not yet,
but not anywhere near,
wearied:
#TransgenderDayOfRemembranceAndResilience
A little weathered
but not yet,
but not anywhere near,
wearied:
#TransgenderDayOfRemembranceAndResilience
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Dashboard messages:
A little weathered
but not yet,
but not anywhere near,
wearied:
#TransgenderDayOfRemembranceAndResilience
A little weathered
but not yet,
but not anywhere near,
wearied:
#TransgenderDayOfRemembranceAndResilience
Where survival turns with planet,
chases the sun, wait is a courage
we name winter. Beneath ice
mink, muskrat, and otter swim,
stalk sleek shadows of fish.
Woodland dwellers find feast each season—
oh despair, make that your gospel
fr—Postures of Devotion
Kimberly Blaeser
bit.ly/488A2lY
chases the sun, wait is a courage
we name winter. Beneath ice
mink, muskrat, and otter swim,
stalk sleek shadows of fish.
Woodland dwellers find feast each season—
oh despair, make that your gospel
fr—Postures of Devotion
Kimberly Blaeser
bit.ly/488A2lY
Indigenous Poetics: Translational Migrations: Indigenous Languages and Bilingual Poetics
This panel features Chris Hoshnic, Elise Paschen, Kimberly Blaeser, moderated by Rob Arnold. This panel explored the possibilities of translation in Indigenous languages and the creative potential of bilingualism in poetry. We approached translation as a migratory act, one that reveals tensions, ruptures, and resonances between languages. Through poetry and dialogue, we examined how linguistic interplay can foreground fragmentation, resistance, and hybridity. These intersections offered new modes of expression that honor Indigenous epistemologies while simultaneously interrogating colonial legacies.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Where survival turns with planet,
chases the sun, wait is a courage
we name winter. Beneath ice
mink, muskrat, and otter swim,
stalk sleek shadows of fish.
Woodland dwellers find feast each season—
oh despair, make that your gospel
fr—Postures of Devotion
Kimberly Blaeser
bit.ly/488A2lY
chases the sun, wait is a courage
we name winter. Beneath ice
mink, muskrat, and otter swim,
stalk sleek shadows of fish.
Woodland dwellers find feast each season—
oh despair, make that your gospel
fr—Postures of Devotion
Kimberly Blaeser
bit.ly/488A2lY
Is it that I wanted
the leviathan to see me, & perhaps god—the way I
once saw a whale in Resurrection Bay? We were bound
by the light wave reflecting off us, buoyed by oscillating
waves. Perhaps, there’d only be waves. I don’t need
to be seen, but I need...
fr—Lodestone
A. Wenstrup
bit.ly/47Nq8ay
the leviathan to see me, & perhaps god—the way I
once saw a whale in Resurrection Bay? We were bound
by the light wave reflecting off us, buoyed by oscillating
waves. Perhaps, there’d only be waves. I don’t need
to be seen, but I need...
fr—Lodestone
A. Wenstrup
bit.ly/47Nq8ay
Q&A with Annie Wenstrup, author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories
Annie Wenstrup is a Dena’ina poet and the author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories. The recipient of a 2025 Whiting Award in Poetry, her poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, New En...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Is it that I wanted
the leviathan to see me, & perhaps god—the way I
once saw a whale in Resurrection Bay? We were bound
by the light wave reflecting off us, buoyed by oscillating
waves. Perhaps, there’d only be waves. I don’t need
to be seen, but I need...
fr—Lodestone
A. Wenstrup
bit.ly/47Nq8ay
the leviathan to see me, & perhaps god—the way I
once saw a whale in Resurrection Bay? We were bound
by the light wave reflecting off us, buoyed by oscillating
waves. Perhaps, there’d only be waves. I don’t need
to be seen, but I need...
fr—Lodestone
A. Wenstrup
bit.ly/47Nq8ay
Many thanks to @judytacketttn.bsky.social for bringing this interview w/ Nashville's The Contributor come to life.
The work of this organization is not just of importance, but of real necessity, to this city & its people.
Thank you to Judy & The Contributor both for the opportunity:
bit.ly/3XBVAm6
The work of this organization is not just of importance, but of real necessity, to this city & its people.
Thank you to Judy & The Contributor both for the opportunity:
bit.ly/3XBVAm6
Q&A with Dahron Anneliese Johnson
Chaplain Dahron Annelies Johnson is a trans rights advocate who has become a mainstay of activism in the halls where the Tennessee General Assembly meets.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Many thanks to @judytacketttn.bsky.social for bringing this interview w/ Nashville's The Contributor come to life.
The work of this organization is not just of importance, but of real necessity, to this city & its people.
Thank you to Judy & The Contributor both for the opportunity:
bit.ly/3XBVAm6
The work of this organization is not just of importance, but of real necessity, to this city & its people.
Thank you to Judy & The Contributor both for the opportunity:
bit.ly/3XBVAm6
Earlier this year, the good @drishp.bsky.social & @shannonschumacher.bsky.social accepted an invite to share insights from the @kffhealthnews.org survey/focus group work they've been doing w/immigrants of all statuses. Our members found it extremely helpful!
Don't skip this update:
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Don't skip this update:
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November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Earlier this year, the good @drishp.bsky.social & @shannonschumacher.bsky.social accepted an invite to share insights from the @kffhealthnews.org survey/focus group work they've been doing w/immigrants of all statuses. Our members found it extremely helpful!
Don't skip this update:
bit.ly/4a5zeki
Don't skip this update:
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. . .truth is I rarely think
of you till one of your accidental appearances.
Like today. Or like last fall, first day of class.
I found myself reading you, Dead Name,
from a list of hopefuls wanting to add. I paused.
Almost couldn’t say you
fr—To My Daughter’s Dead Name
Lance Larsen
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of you till one of your accidental appearances.
Like today. Or like last fall, first day of class.
I found myself reading you, Dead Name,
from a list of hopefuls wanting to add. I paused.
Almost couldn’t say you
fr—To My Daughter’s Dead Name
Lance Larsen
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Wisdom and order and lovely unruliness: An Interview with Lance Larsen - University of Tampa Press
Ryan McIlvain interviews Lance Larsen about his new poetry collection Making a Kingdom of It.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
. . .truth is I rarely think
of you till one of your accidental appearances.
Like today. Or like last fall, first day of class.
I found myself reading you, Dead Name,
from a list of hopefuls wanting to add. I paused.
Almost couldn’t say you
fr—To My Daughter’s Dead Name
Lance Larsen
bit.ly/4r3H2t2
of you till one of your accidental appearances.
Like today. Or like last fall, first day of class.
I found myself reading you, Dead Name,
from a list of hopefuls wanting to add. I paused.
Almost couldn’t say you
fr—To My Daughter’s Dead Name
Lance Larsen
bit.ly/4r3H2t2
Going around with it, there I wander.
Taking another, I depart with it. With it I wander.
In the house of long life, there I wander.
In the house of happiness, there I wander.
Beauty before me, with it I wander.
Beauty behind me...
fr—Song “A”
Poet unknown
trans—Washington Matthews
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Taking another, I depart with it. With it I wander.
In the house of long life, there I wander.
In the house of happiness, there I wander.
Beauty before me, with it I wander.
Beauty behind me...
fr—Song “A”
Poet unknown
trans—Washington Matthews
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MATTHEWS, Washington - Encyclopedia Dubuque
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November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Going around with it, there I wander.
Taking another, I depart with it. With it I wander.
In the house of long life, there I wander.
In the house of happiness, there I wander.
Beauty before me, with it I wander.
Beauty behind me...
fr—Song “A”
Poet unknown
trans—Washington Matthews
bit.ly/4pe6LNN
Taking another, I depart with it. With it I wander.
In the house of long life, there I wander.
In the house of happiness, there I wander.
Beauty before me, with it I wander.
Beauty behind me...
fr—Song “A”
Poet unknown
trans—Washington Matthews
bit.ly/4pe6LNN
Double-upping on the strategy they're banking on to get people off Medicaid rolls: make the paperwork hurdles so complex that people Fall. Out.(!) of the system just from being overwhelmed & exhausted by the never-ending process of it all.
Or, as the good @erinfor12.bsky.social put it: this is BS.
Or, as the good @erinfor12.bsky.social put it: this is BS.
This is BS.
Brooke Rollins says on Newsmax SNAP participants will have to re-apply for the program.
Details are still unclear.
via Grace Yarrow for @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Details are still unclear.
via Grace Yarrow for @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Double-upping on the strategy they're banking on to get people off Medicaid rolls: make the paperwork hurdles so complex that people Fall. Out.(!) of the system just from being overwhelmed & exhausted by the never-ending process of it all.
Or, as the good @erinfor12.bsky.social put it: this is BS.
Or, as the good @erinfor12.bsky.social put it: this is BS.
...And boy she rhymes
like he’s inside her—thumbing through her book.
You’ll want to read like her. You’ll want to wear
hip pads beneath your quatrains. Stuff big words
in every line to burst the iamb’s brassiere.
To be Elizabethan, queen of bards
fr—The Sonnet in Drag
Chris Watkins
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like he’s inside her—thumbing through her book.
You’ll want to read like her. You’ll want to wear
hip pads beneath your quatrains. Stuff big words
in every line to burst the iamb’s brassiere.
To be Elizabethan, queen of bards
fr—The Sonnet in Drag
Chris Watkins
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Chris Watkins Interview — The Dodge
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November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
...And boy she rhymes
like he’s inside her—thumbing through her book.
You’ll want to read like her. You’ll want to wear
hip pads beneath your quatrains. Stuff big words
in every line to burst the iamb’s brassiere.
To be Elizabethan, queen of bards
fr—The Sonnet in Drag
Chris Watkins
bit.ly/3JZiLDE
like he’s inside her—thumbing through her book.
You’ll want to read like her. You’ll want to wear
hip pads beneath your quatrains. Stuff big words
in every line to burst the iamb’s brassiere.
To be Elizabethan, queen of bards
fr—The Sonnet in Drag
Chris Watkins
bit.ly/3JZiLDE
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REALITY!!
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@aftynbehn.bsky.social is THE changemaker in this race -- attending to diverse voices, & willing to try the new thing to create positive difference.
Early voting
NOW thru 26.NOV!
ELECTION DAY
02.Dec!
Vote! Donate! Volunteer!
www.aftynforcongress.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
#CD7, let's make this "surprise" a
REALITY!!
@aftynbehn.bsky.social is THE changemaker in this race -- attending to diverse voices, & willing to try the new thing to create positive difference.
Early voting
NOW thru 26.NOV!
ELECTION DAY
02.Dec!
Vote! Donate! Volunteer!
www.aftynforcongress.com
REALITY!!
@aftynbehn.bsky.social is THE changemaker in this race -- attending to diverse voices, & willing to try the new thing to create positive difference.
Early voting
NOW thru 26.NOV!
ELECTION DAY
02.Dec!
Vote! Donate! Volunteer!
www.aftynforcongress.com
Early voting starts today (Wednesday, 12.Nov) and runs through 26.Nov. Let's get out there and get @aftynbehn.bsky.social elected!
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November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Early voting starts today (Wednesday, 12.Nov) and runs through 26.Nov. Let's get out there and get @aftynbehn.bsky.social elected!
mannequins
I imagine angels appear as—
headless torsos, voices
emanating from necks—
scare me like you did.
Still I let divine will
fill me like a windsock,
commencing a delirious
motion. Now my love is a line
pulled by no current.
Thanks for your purchase!
fr—Poshmark
Erin Marie Lynch
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I imagine angels appear as—
headless torsos, voices
emanating from necks—
scare me like you did.
Still I let divine will
fill me like a windsock,
commencing a delirious
motion. Now my love is a line
pulled by no current.
Thanks for your purchase!
fr—Poshmark
Erin Marie Lynch
t.ly/9jwEB
222. Zitkála-Šá with Jessi Haley and Erin Marie Lynch — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
At the age of eight, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (later known by her pen name Zitkála-Šá) left her Yankton Dakota reservation to attend a missionary boarding school for Native Americans, a harsh and abusi...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
mannequins
I imagine angels appear as—
headless torsos, voices
emanating from necks—
scare me like you did.
Still I let divine will
fill me like a windsock,
commencing a delirious
motion. Now my love is a line
pulled by no current.
Thanks for your purchase!
fr—Poshmark
Erin Marie Lynch
t.ly/9jwEB
I imagine angels appear as—
headless torsos, voices
emanating from necks—
scare me like you did.
Still I let divine will
fill me like a windsock,
commencing a delirious
motion. Now my love is a line
pulled by no current.
Thanks for your purchase!
fr—Poshmark
Erin Marie Lynch
t.ly/9jwEB
You were braiding the sky with flame. You were listening for the cry.
Time was a hunger swallowing despair, desperation, & always the strange colonies of cloud overhead, time speaking in tongues.
You were driving right into the storm.
You were asleep..
fr—Fourth of July
Rob Arnold
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Time was a hunger swallowing despair, desperation, & always the strange colonies of cloud overhead, time speaking in tongues.
You were driving right into the storm.
You were asleep..
fr—Fourth of July
Rob Arnold
bit.ly/4p2b1zN
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Rob Arnold | Water~Stone Review
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November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
You were braiding the sky with flame. You were listening for the cry.
Time was a hunger swallowing despair, desperation, & always the strange colonies of cloud overhead, time speaking in tongues.
You were driving right into the storm.
You were asleep..
fr—Fourth of July
Rob Arnold
bit.ly/4p2b1zN
Time was a hunger swallowing despair, desperation, & always the strange colonies of cloud overhead, time speaking in tongues.
You were driving right into the storm.
You were asleep..
fr—Fourth of July
Rob Arnold
bit.ly/4p2b1zN
How different to be watched (like last night
across the linen table from you,
to be seen, as if for the first time,
& then to dip into the gleam
of an ocean, your open gaze).
I long, instead, to cup the water
music, rising blackbird notes, mid-air
fr—Aperture
Elise Paschen
bit.ly/4nMXHyb
across the linen table from you,
to be seen, as if for the first time,
& then to dip into the gleam
of an ocean, your open gaze).
I long, instead, to cup the water
music, rising blackbird notes, mid-air
fr—Aperture
Elise Paschen
bit.ly/4nMXHyb
Interview: Elise Paschen on Blood Wolf Moon
Elise Paschen speaks with Poets House about returning to personal and inherited histories, reclaiming the Osage language, "channeling" as a poetic process, and balancing formal innovation and traditio...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
How different to be watched (like last night
across the linen table from you,
to be seen, as if for the first time,
& then to dip into the gleam
of an ocean, your open gaze).
I long, instead, to cup the water
music, rising blackbird notes, mid-air
fr—Aperture
Elise Paschen
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across the linen table from you,
to be seen, as if for the first time,
& then to dip into the gleam
of an ocean, your open gaze).
I long, instead, to cup the water
music, rising blackbird notes, mid-air
fr—Aperture
Elise Paschen
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My ways have been the ways that wanderers tread
And those that make romance of poverty—
Soldier, I shared the soldier’s board and bed,
And Joy has been a thing more oft to me
Whispered by summer wind and summer sea
Than known incarnate in the hours it lies...
fr—Liebestod
Alan Seeger
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And those that make romance of poverty—
Soldier, I shared the soldier’s board and bed,
And Joy has been a thing more oft to me
Whispered by summer wind and summer sea
Than known incarnate in the hours it lies...
fr—Liebestod
Alan Seeger
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Brief life of Alan Seeger, poet and soldier in World War I | Harvard Magazine
Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916
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November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My ways have been the ways that wanderers tread
And those that make romance of poverty—
Soldier, I shared the soldier’s board and bed,
And Joy has been a thing more oft to me
Whispered by summer wind and summer sea
Than known incarnate in the hours it lies...
fr—Liebestod
Alan Seeger
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And those that make romance of poverty—
Soldier, I shared the soldier’s board and bed,
And Joy has been a thing more oft to me
Whispered by summer wind and summer sea
Than known incarnate in the hours it lies...
fr—Liebestod
Alan Seeger
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I don't know about you—but I'm ready to keep building on the good work of the recent elections; to keep ramping up the positive calls to action heard—& spoken!—at the recent No Kings Day; & I'm rarin' to keep forging ahead w/any & all efforts that move us towards places of fuller flourishing! (1/4)
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I don't know about you—but I'm ready to keep building on the good work of the recent elections; to keep ramping up the positive calls to action heard—& spoken!—at the recent No Kings Day; & I'm rarin' to keep forging ahead w/any & all efforts that move us towards places of fuller flourishing! (1/4)
Sunlight was something more than that to him.
It was a halo when it formed a rim
Around some far-off mountain peak. He called
It thin-beat leaf of gold, and stood enthralled
When it lay still on some half-sheltered spot
In gilt mosaics
fr—The Poet
Mary Cornelia Hartshorne
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It was a halo when it formed a rim
Around some far-off mountain peak. He called
It thin-beat leaf of gold, and stood enthralled
When it lay still on some half-sheltered spot
In gilt mosaics
fr—The Poet
Mary Cornelia Hartshorne
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We Are Still Here
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Sunlight was something more than that to him.
It was a halo when it formed a rim
Around some far-off mountain peak. He called
It thin-beat leaf of gold, and stood enthralled
When it lay still on some half-sheltered spot
In gilt mosaics
fr—The Poet
Mary Cornelia Hartshorne
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It was a halo when it formed a rim
Around some far-off mountain peak. He called
It thin-beat leaf of gold, and stood enthralled
When it lay still on some half-sheltered spot
In gilt mosaics
fr—The Poet
Mary Cornelia Hartshorne
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. . . I must
become something that thrives
in dry weather. Come calmly up the path.
Be so present even eyes dimmed by bitters
can track you into the pastel asters.
Don’t make me wait. I’ll be fidgeting
with the unrest brought on by fatal weather
fr—Tough Zinnias
Alice Fulton
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become something that thrives
in dry weather. Come calmly up the path.
Be so present even eyes dimmed by bitters
can track you into the pastel asters.
Don’t make me wait. I’ll be fidgeting
with the unrest brought on by fatal weather
fr—Tough Zinnias
Alice Fulton
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A Poet’s Wisdom: Alice Fulton
The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
. . . I must
become something that thrives
in dry weather. Come calmly up the path.
Be so present even eyes dimmed by bitters
can track you into the pastel asters.
Don’t make me wait. I’ll be fidgeting
with the unrest brought on by fatal weather
fr—Tough Zinnias
Alice Fulton
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become something that thrives
in dry weather. Come calmly up the path.
Be so present even eyes dimmed by bitters
can track you into the pastel asters.
Don’t make me wait. I’ll be fidgeting
with the unrest brought on by fatal weather
fr—Tough Zinnias
Alice Fulton
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..always shifting, the water reaching up to take
what it will. There are days I cannot find myself
between the steps of my parents’ home and the long sigh
of afternoon rain. Each time I leave
it is the last time. Time passes faster when I am not there
fe—Homecoming
Landis Grenville
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what it will. There are days I cannot find myself
between the steps of my parents’ home and the long sigh
of afternoon rain. Each time I leave
it is the last time. Time passes faster when I am not there
fe—Homecoming
Landis Grenville
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Landis Grenville:
Recorded by Landis Grenville for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on November 6, 2025. www.poets.org
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November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
..always shifting, the water reaching up to take
what it will. There are days I cannot find myself
between the steps of my parents’ home and the long sigh
of afternoon rain. Each time I leave
it is the last time. Time passes faster when I am not there
fe—Homecoming
Landis Grenville
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what it will. There are days I cannot find myself
between the steps of my parents’ home and the long sigh
of afternoon rain. Each time I leave
it is the last time. Time passes faster when I am not there
fe—Homecoming
Landis Grenville
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