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dbpoet.bsky.social @dbpoet.bsky.social · Jan 15
poems from the new Swing & Lily Poetry Review—one for Simic & the other about one strange place #writingandbooks

#poetry
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Apply to the UNH MFA Writing program—January 15 deadline—!

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#mfaprograms #poetry #writing #unh #newhampshire
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Poem in Consequence—

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#poetry #writing
In House-Painter Years, Not That Long After the War
Poetry by David Blair
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September 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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The leadership of this country wants you to believe they are Christian, but there is nothing Christian about going after those who come to work in peace.
ufw.bsky.social United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jun 11
We feed you.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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reading a few poems with Rachel Betesh for the launch of Consequence Forum, V. 17.1 online on Wednesday, May 14, 7:00 p.m ET #writingandbooks

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May 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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I am reading a few poems with Rachel Betesh for the launch of Consequence Forum, V. 17.1 online on Wednesday, May 14, 7:00 pm—
Here is a link if you would like to attend:

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May 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Reading with my friend Fred Marchant & Julia Lisella Thursday @ First Church Cambridge—beautiful space by Harvard Square—
March 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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seeing & hearing this LOUD in some AMC pleasure dome is good for you—love their boathouse, best one in a movie since Jules & Jim—
#poetry #rockandroll #hairstyles

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February 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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It’s a good time to read & teach TT poems—
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#poetry
“Vermeer” by Tomas Tranströmer
It’s not a sheltered world. The noise begins over there, on the other side of the wall where the alehouse is with its laughter and quarrels, its rows of teeth, its tears, its chiming of clocks, and…
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February 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I’m hosting a celebration of Kenneth Koch at The New School on March 17 at 7 pm. Speakers will include Robert Polito, Ron Padgett, Maxine Groffsky, John Keene, Lucy Sante and Jim Jarmusch.
jordandavis.bsky.social Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · Feb 14
Some personal news
Kenneth Koch at 100: A Celebration Monday, March 17, 7 pm The New School Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street The Kenneth Koch Literary Estate and the New School invite you to a celebration of the life and work of Kenneth Koch, poet, teacher, playwright, fiction writer, and collaborator with artists. Koch, who taught at The New School from 1958 to 1966, is a major poet of New York - alongside his friends John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler - and a teacher who inspired generations of young writers. Participants include film director Jim Jarmusch, critic Lucy Sante, artists Jim Dine and Alex Katz, legendary editor of Paris Review Maxine Groffsky, essayist Phillip Lopate, and poets Ron Padgett, Charles North, Tony Towle, John Keene, and Jeffrey Harrison. Poet and editor Jordan Davis will host the event, with a general introduction by Robert Polito of The New School. Koch collaborated with artists Alex Katz, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Red Grooms, Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Rauschenberg and Larry Rivers, and with composers Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Marcello Panni, and Scott Wheeler. The event is the first to celebrate Koch's work following what would have been his 100th birthday in February. During his lifetime, Koch published more than a dozen collections of poems including Thank You, The Pleasures of Peace, The Art of Love, Days and Nights, One Train, and New Addresses. Among his posthumous volumes are Collected Poems, On the Edge: Collected Long Poems, The Banquet: Collected Plays and The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch. He is also the author of two trailblazing books on teaching writing to children, Wishes, Lies and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Koch received the Library of Congress' Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and the Bollingen Prize for Poetry. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, received Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, and was named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Koch's teaching career in New York, beginning with three years at Brooklyn College and nine years at the New School, concluded at Columbia, where he taught from 1959 until 2002. The event is free and open to the public.
February 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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poems from the new Swing & Lily Poetry Review—one for Simic & the other about one strange place #writingandbooks

#poetry
January 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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check out Swing #writing #reading #lawschool #poetry
January 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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new issue of Lily Poetry Review, tipping my hat & wiping my skeeve for the great Charles Simic— #poetry #poets #surrealism #ravens #laureate
January 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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@TheBrooklynRail should be fun--
THE NEW SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT#943

Aesthetic Confessions: Miguel Abreu
Featuring Abreu and Raphael Rubinstein, with David Blair

Thursday, November 16, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Aesthetic Confessions: Miguel Abreu
#943 | Gallerist Miguel Abreu joins Rail Editor-at-Large Raphael Rubinstein for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by David Blair.
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November 14, 2023 at 1:48 AM
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new poems in The Brooklyn Rail—

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David Blair
David Blair lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire. He's the author of five books of books of poetry, including last year's True ...
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November 1, 2023 at 6:08 PM
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clark coolidge & guston talking about the goal of being enigmatic, newness & feeling bugged—#poetry #writers #art
September 30, 2023 at 8:14 PM