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Poet, teacher, music nerd | New/forthcoming poems in The Malahat Review, QWERTY, Pinhole Poetry, CV2, Canadian Literature, Consilience, The New Quarterly | BLM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🌻 www.jessicaleemcmillan.com
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This is such a phenomenal song❤️
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"The end of the world is, as Denise Ferreira da Silva has argued, a point of departure for a new kind of imagining, one that supplements the traditional work of critique with that of the imagination".
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"To say there is no future, or that the future moves only in the direction of greater destruction, then we are still imagining something, even if it is a dark picture, one that shows no signs of hope. If we are imagining a fatal conclusion, we are still imagining”.
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"All this happens not only inside the mind, but in the modalities and objects through which fearing and imagining take place: specific sensuous modes of presentation, specific media. These are not simply vehicles for preformed thought, but formative powers in themselves”.
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Thanks so much, Carlos! So good to know another Chico fan!
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Hair is a verb in my home too.
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I haven’t been able to stomach the flag for a long time now and it just gets worse.
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in double-paned glass waxing twins give light from light to light 'neath closed lids
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Just popping in for 5 mins. Mercedes Eng’s Cop City Swagger, Cecily Nicholson’s From the Poplars or Junie Désil’s eat salt | gaze at the ocean are examples that immediately come to mind where poetry can very successful maintain a critical lens.
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Totally! But Owens is always skilled at making pop & rock tropes his own—including the catchy lyrics.
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I might have done that and tripped on something most people wouldn’t trip on:)
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Still, a communication between beings.
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Needed this.
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This is too good.
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The Ranking Roger was phenomenal! Looking for the official release. And Junior Murvin is an essential.
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One of my absolute faves! I used to spin it in wee punk bars.
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Aww, thanks. It helps to know about alternatives from folks who have tried it. Yes, Hazel is ridiculously sweet. Bug is adorbs!
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Does xanax really work or just take the edge off? Our Hazel is really really reactive to thunder, fireworks and some construction sounds. We tried Zylkene & thundershirt but it is really expensive and requires you to use days/weeks before, which is no help if we can’t anticipate the noise event.
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"Everything happened in a frenzy. Four weeks and two days elapsed between Hitler’s accession to power and the Emergency Decree... which abrogated all fundamental civil rights. It took only this one month to transform a state under the rule of law into a violent dictatorship without scruples."
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Lovely news~ Congratulations to the winners!😍
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Oh no, it does not move me...
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"How will you explain to yourself Seeing the sky clear, suddenly With impunity? How are you going to stifle Our chorus singing Right in front of you In spite of you" lyricalbrazil.com/2012/03/18/a...
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I was thinking that too!