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Mickie Kennedy
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Pushcart nominee. Gay poet. Baltimore. POETRY, Threepenny, TSR, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel. First book Worth Burning coming Feb. '26 Black Lawrence Press. https://mickiekennedy.com
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"Some humans say trees are not sentient beings, but they do not understand poetry—"
—Joy Harjo

#poem #poems #poetry
December 13, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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The tenth installment of our "Literature and Democracy" series is now live!

Featuring six poems by Ukrainian poet Moisei Fishbein, translated into English by John Hennessy & Ostap Kin, & an interview between Kin & NER international correspondent Ellen Hinsey.

sites.middlebury.edu/newenglandre...
December 13, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Idk this little four panel comic by Lynda Barry (drawnandquarterly.com) just unexpectedly really got me so here you go
November 8, 2023 at 4:53 AM
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From Ocean Vuong's book, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: bookshop.org/a/862/978052...

#books #booklovers #oceanvuong #authors #writing
December 13, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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We lived in the house of poetry, which was also the house of love and grief; the house of solitude and art; the house of Jane’s depression and my cancers and Jane’s leukemia.

Donald Hall
The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love
“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 11, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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~Maureen Seaton
(throwing away all the rules & her work singing)

from The Sky is an Elephant
(Redacted Books, 2023)
December 12, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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December 12, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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Little secret is that the poem featured (“Fade Away”) is an excerpt from a very bad ass long poem about music and bands, desire, nostalgia, aging, and more 🎶
December 13, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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Here’s a great overview of the phenomenal Nikki Giovanni. Truly a legend. 💔
Nikki Giovanni
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 10, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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I hope I die
warmed
by the life
that I tried
to live

— Nikki Giovanni
🖤🙏🏾
December 10, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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Hello! We’re here to post about queer poems and our little poetry books - hopefully without the toxicity of other places. 🥰
December 4, 2024 at 11:56 AM