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Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️‍🌈 http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
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Summer Me, Winters Me

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Tottenham fined £75,000 by FA for homophobic chanting from supporters

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From @ruthawad.bsky.social's book, Set to Music a Wildfire: bookshop.org/a/862/9781930508538 #poem #writing #booksky

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Every one of these petty, ideologically driven visa denials is an assault on *our* freedom of association, our right to hear, and our ability to learn about the world around us. They are meant to make us stupider, more susceptible to manipulation, and less free. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

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This book is so brilliant and encouraging, even if you are not a fiction writer or even, for that matter, a writer, but love thinking about words and books. "Did I say that real life occurs in the present tense? I don't believe that. We live in a great simultaneity." [email protected]

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Are folks already using the retronym "natural intelligence" in response to artificial intelligence. Like..."this magazine produced entirely with natural intelligence."

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“If I could live again my life In the next – I’ll try, – to make more mistakes, I won’t try to be so perfect … I’ll take more risks, I’ll take more trips, I’ll watch more sunsets, I’ll climb more mountains, I’ll swim more rivers” Jorge Luis Borges [Tr. Unknown] #poetry #writer

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Yep this is an astonishing poem!

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True genius 🤣 🤣 🤣

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This poem by @aireadee.bsky.social lifted me this morning on its Icarus wings. "Light refracts my name in dialect only moths comprehend."

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I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan. We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised. That’s how democracy should function.

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Jello is going to look so naked with no dyes

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Keith Haring working on a painting for "Aperto 84" at the Venice Biennale at the Magazzini del Sale, 1984. Photo by Graziano Arici

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the wrens are loudest in the morning-- yes, yes, little wrens, it's a new day

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When I hear the words Trump Mobile I think

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Find joy wherever you can.

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Marilyn Monroe Reading Joyce’s Ulysses #bloomsday

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every day i think they can’t get any worse. every day i’m wrong.

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Nobody needs this man's enthusiasm for garbage.

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Today, people—from students to federal workers, from immigrants to the LGBTQ+ community—find themselves forced to fight deportations, surveillance, and the drastic erosion of fundamental human rights. So, WIRED dedicated a whole issue on How To Win A Fight. Start ⬇️: www.wired.com/story/editor...

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California Poppies

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This military parade could’ve been a Signal chat

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Where there's a Will there's a way.

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🏆 to whoever came up with and coordinated the No Kings protest at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Don’t miss it…absolute fire.

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This CANNOT be shared too often ✌🏼💙🇺🇸

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Once again, Agatha Christie capturing the slippage between meanings. Mad...and mad.

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Imagine meeting someone who was alive when Stonehenge & the pyramids of Egypt were built 5,000 years ago Daft yes? Well what about a tree that was alive then, and still is The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of California Photo: Rick Goldwaser

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A People’s Guide to Protesting open.substack.com/pub/jayponti...

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I made this list of Nonviolent Political Actions for Writers for a course I taught during TFG 1.0 on Writers & Resistance. Please share. You do not need to be a writer to participate. "You are here on this earth at this time. Don't act like you're not a part of what's going on."

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Remember when Trump and Hegseth got rid of folks at the Pentagon who might impede their ability to give illegal orders to the military?

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Disobey unlawful orders

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"Friday---Missing Work" at the bus stop a blue chevie pulls up hey the man says I don't know you but if you don't mind missing work I'll take you to the park and bludgeon you to death okay I say & get in (By William Talcott)

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