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I am magic and I make magic happen. Writer. Poet. Confidante. BFF. Polymathic obsessive/Obsessive polymath 🧿 Be truthful, gentle, and fearless. Dropping on the reg at www.rafiamahli.com
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New: My dispatch from the hottest club in New York City on Friday — the Luigi Mangione hearing. Truly one of the most fascinating scenes I’ve ever witnessed. With illustrations from inside the courtroom by the great Molly Crabapple www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

TABKHA: Recipes under the rubble, is a collection of 20 Palestinian recipes written by Mona Zahed and richly illustrated by artists from creative mutual aid group Coffees For Gaza, published in collaboration with Slingshot Books. Pre-order now: tabkhabook.com?fbclid=PAZXh...

@rafiamahli.com Hey 👋, I’m working hard to rebuild my life after the devastation of the war 💔 and support my family. I sincerely need your help— even a small donation of €5 or sharing my campaign can make a huge difference 🙏. Any help is deeply appreciated. ❤️ Link in bio

Neither did I.

I still have issues of Optic Nerve from the 90s; an incredible talent for storytelling and illustration.

That’s not all: as @ayoub.bsky.social has been reporting, the West is enabling Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon and whatever the fuck else they’re doing in Syria that no one is talking about in the media. Arab lives don’t apparently matter, all the BS about international law and human rights a lie.

The Woolmark logo designed by Franco Grignani in the early 1960s www.francogrignani.info/gallery/

Photo folks👇📸

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Neil Finn, greatest living songwriter, exhibit B: "I don't pretend to know what you want, but I offer love."

You can get 25% off a pre-order at Waterstones! Enter PREORDER25 at checkout. With apologies for naked self-promotion :)

In many countries including Australia, NZ, the UK & Canada, authors also get paid regularly for library use of their books. It’s called the Public Lending Right scheme here, though it has several names globally. It doesn’t exist in the USA, so their authors do miss out on that compensation, alas.

Neil Finn is one of our greatest living songwriters, and you can fight me on that: "It's hard to let go Of all that we know As I walk away from you Hurled from my home Into the unknown As I walk away from you The sun always sets With no room for regrets As I walk away from you..."

Frank O’Hara

Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of “progress.” “If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”

Friday 🇨🇦 music picks time! This week: a couple picks from my fellow NSCAD alumni, the boys who put Halifax, NS on the map, Sloan. One of the things that made NSCAD in the 90s an exciting place to study: the art college fostered most of the best bands of that scene. #FridayMusicPicks

I have said it all but it never feels enough so I fall silent I always think if I say more something will change but it never does so live with my silence if you never ask another thing of me that will be all you have left. #WordsUnsaid @brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry83.bsky.social

“You are closer to me than flesh…” —Paul Zweig #poetry #poem #poems

I am, you are, we are overmused. Odilon Redon

Hey Capital Region poets! If you’re an Ottawa/NCR author with an English poetry book published in 2024, mail 4 copies to Arc by March 31 for your chance at Arc's Archibald Lampman Award. More information on the award here: buff.ly/3wU8HoK

Mood:

Paul Rand wrote the preface for Yusaku Kamakura’s book, Trademarks of the World, 1958. He states his influence of Japanese art and design, trademarks as a universal language and his struggles with English grammar. designreviewed.com/paul-rand-on... #paulrand #logodesign #designbooks #graphicdesign

“It is deeply ironic and telling that both the alleged pro-Israel perpetrator and the pro-Israel victim in the Miami Beach shooting reportedly hold racist anti-Palestinian views,” said CAIR's Nihad Awad. https://buff.ly/4gKuLDu #Palestine #Israel

[…] It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. ― William Carlos Williams, from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower #Poetry

First UK review! www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...

To be clear: the sacred sauce is always maple syrup. Anything else is blasphemy!

'Courage is knowing what not to fear.' Plato #wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #ai #aiart #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream

Always. If not for love, then what for? WTF else is there?

Love requires a savage devotion.

“Adapt or die.” I’d rather die, thanks. Adapting is a form of soul death that’s worse than actual death.

. From 'Nothing Is Ok' (2018) —Rachel Wiley #poetry #poem #poems