Noah (they/he)
@noahpowers.bsky.social
Kentucky poet. MFA @ Alabama. Poetry editor @ JAKE. COYS.
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Got a story out today about something I’ve been fascinated by for years: From Atlanta hip hop to Bama RushTok, here’s how and why the South has taken such a firm grip on modern American culture. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The United States Is Southern Now
From booming metros to culture-defining exports, the South has quietly become a demographic powerhouse and a battleground for the country’s identity.
www.bloomberg.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Got a story out today about something I’ve been fascinated by for years: From Atlanta hip hop to Bama RushTok, here’s how and why the South has taken such a firm grip on modern American culture. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Baby’s first skull 💀 check out my weird little Kentucky poem ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🐎🐎🐎
“...flames licked at the white wood / like a tongue against a sugar cube…”
Noah Powers sets love, horses, and vengeance on fire in today’s poem!
https://www.havehashad.com/0207m
Noah Powers sets love, horses, and vengeance on fire in today’s poem!
https://www.havehashad.com/0207m
The Other Kentucky Derby by Noah Powers
It’s like I told the firefighters— when my lover left, my pitchfork transformed into a stack of sugar cubes, bringing out the horses from pasture’s edge, who munched up the pitchfork pieces, one…
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August 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Baby’s first skull 💀 check out my weird little Kentucky poem ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🐎🐎🐎
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Update on Ernesto, an 18-year-old in Bowling Green, KY who was taken by ICE: “The Department of Homeland Security has blocked the release of Ernesto Manuel-Andres, despite a federal immigration judge ordering that he be released on bond, according to the nonprofit working with him.”
Despite bond being set, Ernesto Manuel-Andres to remain detained - Bowling Green Daily News
The Department of Homeland Security has blocked the release of Ernesto Manuel-Andres, despite a federal immigration judge ordering that he be released on bond, according to the nonprofit working with ...
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June 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Update on Ernesto, an 18-year-old in Bowling Green, KY who was taken by ICE: “The Department of Homeland Security has blocked the release of Ernesto Manuel-Andres, despite a federal immigration judge ordering that he be released on bond, according to the nonprofit working with him.”
my newest poem in JAKE is an absolute favorite of mine, read it here!!!
Hot diggity dog! "Cannon-Shot Dog" from Noah Powers is now available for your reading pleasure:
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Cannon-Shot Dog
by Noah Powers
Man, let me tell you,
they shot that motherfucker
straight out of a cannon.
Packed that sumbitch
with a fresh load of powder.
Lit the wick like a Yankee Ca...
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June 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
my newest poem in JAKE is an absolute favorite of mine, read it here!!!
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Get in loser we’re creating honest sentimental art without a trace of irony and putting a piece of ourselves out into the world
March 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Get in loser we’re creating honest sentimental art without a trace of irony and putting a piece of ourselves out into the world
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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
www.euronews.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
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good morning. today at IHTOV we have @jeremymauser.bsky.social writing about pearl jam. specifically "jeremy" and how having a song with his name, about this subject, affected him. great read ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/king-...
King Jeremy the Wicked: How “Jeremy” Helped Jeremy to Love Being Jeremy
And then, when I was in middle school, my parents introduced me to Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy,” a badass rock song that offered a small sliver of feeling witnessed. A badass rock song that followed another y...
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April 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
good morning. today at IHTOV we have @jeremymauser.bsky.social writing about pearl jam. specifically "jeremy" and how having a song with his name, about this subject, affected him. great read ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/king-...
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The Trump admin is terminating a settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Black Alabama communities harmed by raw sewage, calling the agreement an “illegal DEI and environmental justice policy”
Trump admin terminates ‘illegal DEI’ settlement over raw sewage in poor, majority-Black Alabama communities
The agreement, reached under the Biden Administration, required the state’s Department of Public Health to improve sanitation efforts in Alabama’s Black Belt.
www.whatimreading.net
April 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Trump admin is terminating a settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Black Alabama communities harmed by raw sewage, calling the agreement an “illegal DEI and environmental justice policy”
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"The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union (IUE-CWA Local 83761) and the local labor movement."
labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...
labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...
Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers
Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that ...
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April 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union (IUE-CWA Local 83761) and the local labor movement."
labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...
labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...
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two weird prose poems out today with @havehashad.com
one inspired by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi & one inspired by Amelia Gray
www.havehashad.com/94wk0
one inspired by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi & one inspired by Amelia Gray
www.havehashad.com/94wk0
Two Prose Poems by Benjamin Niespodziany
About the Author
after Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
Benjamin Niespodziany's body of work is a lobby of dirt. A hallway for cloud gazing. A raisin telling the sand it's a plum. His hum has been classifie...
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April 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
two weird prose poems out today with @havehashad.com
one inspired by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi & one inspired by Amelia Gray
www.havehashad.com/94wk0
one inspired by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi & one inspired by Amelia Gray
www.havehashad.com/94wk0
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If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
March 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
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March 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Reading Sam Lipsyte’s Venus Drive for the first time and feeling like I’ve missed out for years with how incredible this collection is
March 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Reading Sam Lipsyte’s Venus Drive for the first time and feeling like I’ve missed out for years with how incredible this collection is
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The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Someone went to a Firehouse Subs in Bowling Green, KY and spotted Fireman Big Red.
January 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Someone went to a Firehouse Subs in Bowling Green, KY and spotted Fireman Big Red.
so honored to have a poem in this wonderful issue alongside my fellow Kentuckian Silas House 🥳 check it out, y’all!
At long last, the January 2025 issue of Ghost City Review is now up online! Thank you so much to our contributors for all this beautiful work. Hope you enjoy!
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January 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
so honored to have a poem in this wonderful issue alongside my fellow Kentuckian Silas House 🥳 check it out, y’all!
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I am growing and becoming a more complete person and it absolutely sucks ass
January 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I am growing and becoming a more complete person and it absolutely sucks ass
Spurs playing the morning after Christmas must be to ensure my holiday joy is immediately extinguished
December 26, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Spurs playing the morning after Christmas must be to ensure my holiday joy is immediately extinguished
I wish I could write pop punk poems. Not poems about pop punk, but poems that elicit similar vibes. I want to be the Gerard Way of poems
December 3, 2024 at 12:34 AM
I wish I could write pop punk poems. Not poems about pop punk, but poems that elicit similar vibes. I want to be the Gerard Way of poems
My mother told me she’s been listening to a new rapper but she couldn’t remember the name and after much searching it was revealed to be XXXTentacion. The news was hard to deliver
November 26, 2024 at 1:38 AM
My mother told me she’s been listening to a new rapper but she couldn’t remember the name and after much searching it was revealed to be XXXTentacion. The news was hard to deliver
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha began her National Book Award acceptance speech, "Good evening everyone and Good morning to beloved Gaza, where it is the 411th day of the genocide.. We are now living in the second November of the American-funded genocide in Palestine: t.ly/DV2K9
November 21, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha began her National Book Award acceptance speech, "Good evening everyone and Good morning to beloved Gaza, where it is the 411th day of the genocide.. We are now living in the second November of the American-funded genocide in Palestine: t.ly/DV2K9
I would love to write a poem in meter but unfortunately I’ve made it all the way to an MFA program writing poems and I do not know how <3
November 21, 2024 at 12:58 AM
I would love to write a poem in meter but unfortunately I’ve made it all the way to an MFA program writing poems and I do not know how <3