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Kate Jordan Still Wears Masks
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Salem, MA

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Do we make poets like Charles Olson anymore? People who turn regional obsessions into opaque epics?
November 21, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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Let history note: what's happening on the streets of LA is an extension of DOGE. Musk's guys illegally consolidated data from across government and cut a corrupt contract with Palantir to build an immigrant-hunting computer system. Presumably in use now.
June 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Tradition states that last night Jesus emptied out all the jails. Spent Saturday night telling people “I don’t care what you did, people weren’t made for prisons.” The next day to prove His point He broke out of solitary. It is finished. Easter is incompatible with the carceral state. Happy Easter.
April 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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“Can’t you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It’s not too late for life, for the living”

- Israeli Jewish co-creator of documentary “No Other Land,” of his Palestinian partner, accepting Best Doc award at the #Oscars2025
March 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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December 15, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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This, rt-ed by @benloory.bsky.social in the other place, has made my morning. Guy Davenport’s on Charles Olson:
March 13, 2024 at 6:36 AM
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The White Whale is more accurate than Leaves of Grass. Because it is America, all of her space, the malice, the root.

Charles Olson. Call me Ishmael. 1947.
November 20, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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HOT OFF THE PRESS! My article on Kathleen Fraser, Charles Olson, and the feminist implications of Projective Verse has been published in Textual Practice. It’s open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Via literary mothers: Kathleen Fraser and the ‘permission-giving’ moment of ‘projective verse’
Poet, editor, and critic Kathleen Fraser underscored the significance of Charles Olson’s seminal manifesto ‘Projective Verse’, emphasising the vital role the text played in expanding the methodolog...
www.tandfonline.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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Anytime I advocate for better covid mitigations - people assume I want to lock them in their homes forever.

In reality we could drastically limit covid transmission with the following:

- Masks in healthcare
- Clean air in public spaces
- Free vaccines, tests & respirators
- Paid time off
November 23, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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CHARLES OLSON
(27/12/1910 - 10/1/1970)

"The Librarian

The landscape (the landscape!) again: Gloucester,
the shore one of me is (duplicates), and from which
(from offshore, I, Maximus) am removed, observe.
 
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December 27, 2023 at 10:16 AM
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June 4, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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Our Lady of Go-Ahead-And-Post-That-Shit blesses you
August 6, 2023 at 11:21 PM