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Went to another protest today; free speech is important. Stopped by the Mass. Historical Society afterwards and saw an inspiring exhibit about how we Bostonians stood up to a dictator a long time ago.

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I handed @j-tkelly.bsky.social’s chapbook to some students and asked them to look at it and tell me what they thought. They said they liked this poem a lot:

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I’ve been thinking a lot about Anthony Burns recently.

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I’m at a protest. People should not be thrown in jail for writing an article.

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Asked my students to write a quick note to the author of the old book they just read, and one of them put it into a beautiful envelope addressed to the author’s home:

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Might be a good time to rewatch this charming French movie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey...

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Beautiful poems from David Graham at Verse-Virtual (www.verse-virtual.org/2025/March/g...)

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Is this the full-blown constitutional crisis we’ve all been fearing? If the administration ignores court orders, what happens next? Impeachment? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

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This seems bad:

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What ICE has been up to lately. Securing our northern border from picture-book publishers.

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I think this is mostly correct. It’s not the whole problem, but it’s important. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

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How cool this is! (And also, shouldn’t every city be like this?!)

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Rode by the USS Constitution museum today. Really hoping that the US Constitution itself doesn’t become a mere museum piece.

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Just realized that I have only submitted one poem for publication since 1/20. Probably should start that up again…

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Wise piece by @janezwart.bsky.social about a writer I didn’t know, Amy Leach, and a writer I have long admired, Ross Gay, both getting at the importance of wholeheartedness, or what I think Zwart calls, after Gay, “common uncommon tenderness” imagejournal.org/article/unde...

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The Greater Austin area permitted 45,000 new homes in 2022 while the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts permitted 17,000 new homes.

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I appreciate AO Scott’s close readings of excellent poems; he does a good job today with a devastating and brilliant sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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I don’t watch many movies, and I have weird taste, but Maïmouna Doucouré’s Hawa is my favorite film since Koreeda’s I Wish—a work of weird genius and deep humanity from start to finish.

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I’m happy to have a poem up at Poems for Persons of Interest. The title comes from a great Ashbery poem, but my poem is a very un-Ashberyesque sonnet. Read it here: pfpoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/alli...

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Great minds think alike, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social

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I learned to snowboard on sledding hills 40 years ago, when boards weren’t allowed at 99% of ski areas, but it was only today that I—along with my daughter—finally figured out how to do it on moguls. Hooray!

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Really enjoyed @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social’s book, The Wild Geography of Misplaced Things, including this excellent poem from the end of the book:

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