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Feeding the Night Dog — Calamity Cole

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

I can’t find any archival evidence that that the Langston Hughes poem circulating here today is authentic so here is a sourced Hughes poem, Beaumont to Detroit, 1943, published that year in the magazine Common Ground, in which he compares Hitler and Mussolini to American Jim Crow and the KKK

My partner hated the song because the first time she heard it she was in her late-teens and thought it was about corporate carbonated beverages and never bothered to listen to the rest. It was fun to watch someone hear it for the first time

Doorbell just rang. A package from Australia. The bookseller Nicholas Pounder sent me a small press print of my Times Literary Supplement poem, "Criseyde." It's a private, gift copy, and it has brought tears to my eyes this morning, for so many reasons.

you can be driven into homelessness by someone like brian thompson, then legally murdered by someone like daniel penny, while the money that could have saved you is spent on murdering children in gaza.

Enter Jack stage left, with gusto

White people, it’s not enough to not be racist. Y’all need to HATE racism like Kendrick Lamar hates Drake. Commit to the goddamned bit.

Theres an uncomfortable subject that exit polls, election post mortems & even the most progressive pundits NEVER talk about. All the political hot takes on why Trump won are based on 1 unspoken premise: It’s time to talk about the mono-racial coalition thegrio.com/2024/11/22/w...

He barks in iambic pentameter, it’s the damndest thing.

flying Puppy

Alvin is a regular dog, aside from the fact he has memorized W.H. Auden’s poem, September 1 1939

This is Lewis. He’s really into those slow feeder toys, the ones where you have to bang it around to get the kibble out, and Liberation Theology.

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