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johnmccrory.bsky.social
Poet. Content Strategist & UX. Ultimate frisbee dad. Montclair citizen. New JerseyYorkHampshire. I try to share one good thing every day.
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Making a metaphor out of this front page story is entirely too easy. Like some Times editor is saying, “I’ll just leave this here…”

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This is spineless, Governor. You've been wrong on congestion pricing from the beginning, but rolling over for a man who calls himself "King?" Have you no self-respect or morals? Please retract this statement, Governor Murphy.

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My request for today is that you call Secretary Rubio's office (202-647-4000) to complain about the corruption of the Trump administration's State Department that has plans to buy $400M of Cybertrucks while Elong Musk is an agent of the US Gov who has not publicly disclosed his financial interests.

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Bubble, bubble, no toil, no trouble.

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In Key West I am reminded by the sunset that it comes up again, too. Stay strong, friends.

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NYT puzzle team needs to hire someone from Pittsburgh

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Stuck on a DC Metro Red Line train that apparently struck a trespasser on the track.

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Our job as humans is to keep going, anyway.

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Japanese Maple

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please no Severance spoilers

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Nearly 100 years ago, Robert Frost gave a talk he titled "Education by Poetry" about poetry's unique power for making us wise to the tricks of metaphor. johnmccrory.com/prose/educat...

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Over the break I renovated George Gascoigne's 1575 manual on 'how to write poetry' in English to make it more accessible with modern spelling and typography + notes on Latin & 16th century idioms. See if you agree much of it is still relevant: johnmccrory.com/prose/certai...

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What do Popeye, A Room of One's Own, the film Pandora's Box (with Louise Brooks), and Ravel's Bolero have in common? They all entered the public domain yesterday. See what else became available to share freely:

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Today I got lost browsing thru James Merrill's books and records & envy-inducing reading nooks this fantastic virtual tour of his and David Jackson's apartment (now a museum) in Stonington, CT www.jamesmerrillhouse.org/merrill-hous....

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What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives. —Lisel Mueller, "Late Hours"

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Today’s highlight was the three Golden-Crowned Kinglets picking clean the bugs and mites from the European Beech like a hair and makeup team primping a diva

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It's a good day to be a New Jerseyan. PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.

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As a poet and a content strategist while I am exploring some experiments with trisyllabics I couldn't help myself and had to make this chart.

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1/5 New York City is curbing pandemic-era outdoor dining while New Jersey is making it permanent. Now if only the Garden State can do something about our prohibition-era liquor license law of 1 license per 3,000 residents in a given municipality.

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"Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off." #PhilipLarkin, who died on this date in 1985 🖤

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When @stephencramervt.bsky.social mentioned he spent the last summer reading all of Shakespeare's plays, I'd no idea he was on a raid. Corrupter of words! Now, here's "Shakespeare Redacted," in which he tells the bard "leave thy vain bibble babble!" and chisels new figures out of marble monuments.

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You know that saying ‘you catch more flies with honey than vinegar? Not true. And we caught more flies with wine than vinegar.

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I didn’t spend 20 minutes watching this Great Blue Heron hunt the shalllows this morning, I earned it.

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"The puny hands / Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds / Are gratified with mischief," — as true of our broligarchy today as it was in the 18th century.

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