Rod Kessler
@rodkessler.bsky.social
One-time writer and retired English professor who lives (happily with his wife) in Salem, Massachusetts
@NPR @Susan Stamberg
What a loss with Susan Stamberg gone! Years ago I published this (fictional) account of getting to meet her: intertext.com/magazine/v3n... (The contact info from 1993 is way out of date.)
What a loss with Susan Stamberg gone! Years ago I published this (fictional) account of getting to meet her: intertext.com/magazine/v3n... (The contact info from 1993 is way out of date.)
October 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
@NPR @Susan Stamberg
What a loss with Susan Stamberg gone! Years ago I published this (fictional) account of getting to meet her: intertext.com/magazine/v3n... (The contact info from 1993 is way out of date.)
What a loss with Susan Stamberg gone! Years ago I published this (fictional) account of getting to meet her: intertext.com/magazine/v3n... (The contact info from 1993 is way out of date.)
#skunk #Salem #Halloween
Newcomer to our Salem,Mass. , neck of the (suburban) woods. Critter seems decked out for our Halloween season. Not your usual skunk?
Newcomer to our Salem,Mass. , neck of the (suburban) woods. Critter seems decked out for our Halloween season. Not your usual skunk?
September 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#skunk #Salem #Halloween
Newcomer to our Salem,Mass. , neck of the (suburban) woods. Critter seems decked out for our Halloween season. Not your usual skunk?
Newcomer to our Salem,Mass. , neck of the (suburban) woods. Critter seems decked out for our Halloween season. Not your usual skunk?
Our Saturday standout in Salem, Mass. , could have used some reinforcements today.
August 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Our Saturday standout in Salem, Mass. , could have used some reinforcements today.
August 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
July 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Think I’m in the ballpark??
July 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Think I’m in the ballpark??
Work by Charles Sheeler in the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH, depicting local scene. (Good visit today)
July 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Work by Charles Sheeler in the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH, depicting local scene. (Good visit today)
My long-ago college classmate Katherine Day Bremer has released HEADHUNTER CONFIDENTIAL: The unwritten Rules for Landing a Job You Love. Know anyone still looking for that kind of work?
July 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
My long-ago college classmate Katherine Day Bremer has released HEADHUNTER CONFIDENTIAL: The unwritten Rules for Landing a Job You Love. Know anyone still looking for that kind of work?
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Salem, MA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Salem, MA · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
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June 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Salem, MA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
We still have baseball at Fenway.
May 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We still have baseball at Fenway.
Glimpse of ordinary life in Boston: commuter rail board in North Station at rush hour.
May 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Glimpse of ordinary life in Boston: commuter rail board in North Station at rush hour.
Happy to see that the Lincoln penny dissent pin is getting some notice.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
In a recent article that appeared in the Salem News, poet and educator Rod Kessler suggested that instead of discarding pennies (our leader…
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April 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Happy to see that the Lincoln penny dissent pin is getting some notice.
karengrossedu.medium.com/a-penny-for-...
karengrossedu.medium.com/a-penny-for-...
I’m still promoting the Lincoln penny lapel pin as a show of dissent. I’m glueing these together as quickly as I can and handing them out.
April 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I’m still promoting the Lincoln penny lapel pin as a show of dissent. I’m glueing these together as quickly as I can and handing them out.
Consider adopting the Lincoln penny pin as a progressive, pro-Democracy symbol. (I’m making my own. You can too!)
April 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Consider adopting the Lincoln penny pin as a progressive, pro-Democracy symbol. (I’m making my own. You can too!)
Just an hour collecting trash along the nearby road, woods,and cove has lifted my mood today.
March 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Just an hour collecting trash along the nearby road, woods,and cove has lifted my mood today.
Lincoln penny lapel pin: stand with Lincoln and the spirit of democracy. Easy to make. Join me?
March 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Lincoln penny lapel pin: stand with Lincoln and the spirit of democracy. Easy to make. Join me?
I’ve an idea for a public anti-(you-know-who /you-know-what) symbol: lapel pins made from pennies. (I've ordered butterfly clutches and shafts & have superglue.) If the far right can monopolize the flag, let us have Lincoln. Imagine if we wore them in public in the millions! Pass the word.
March 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I’ve an idea for a public anti-(you-know-who /you-know-what) symbol: lapel pins made from pennies. (I've ordered butterfly clutches and shafts & have superglue.) If the far right can monopolize the flag, let us have Lincoln. Imagine if we wore them in public in the millions! Pass the word.
Another Harvard basketball game, another violin concert.
March 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Another Harvard basketball game, another violin concert.
Rally for democracy at Boston’s State House.
February 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Rally for democracy at Boston’s State House.
Once Voldemort gets rid of the penny, do you think he’ll next go after the semicolon?
February 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Once Voldemort gets rid of the penny, do you think he’ll next go after the semicolon?
I was teased for my (well-intentioned) post buttocks showing. Here's me with Naked Ladies--poet Julie Kane's new book. I'll be working with Julie in her capacity as judge of the upcoming White Mice poetry competition, sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society. (Stay tuned for details)
February 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I was teased for my (well-intentioned) post buttocks showing. Here's me with Naked Ladies--poet Julie Kane's new book. I'll be working with Julie in her capacity as judge of the upcoming White Mice poetry competition, sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society. (Stay tuned for details)
Wishful thinking on a snowy day in Salem, Mass.
January 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Wishful thinking on a snowy day in Salem, Mass.