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Bernard Wills

@bnwills.bsky.social

Award winning poet. Prof.

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈@daveyh39.bsky.social · 6d ago

"That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life." - Kate Bush Happy Birthday to the truly original and influential Grammy-nominated English singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, and record producer, who was #BOTD on 7/30/1958.

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Sam Levin@samtlevin.bsky.social · last wk.

A Minnesota religious studies professor is facing six years in prison, with the DOJ saying he is part of an "antifa" conspiracy against ICE Erik Davis speaks out about his prosecution, largely based on a handful of his comments in Signal chats. He's not accused of any violence “It’s petty revenge"

The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’

Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives

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Bernard Wills@bnwills.bsky.social · last wk.

I was trying to figure out the reason I care so little (either way) about Nolan's Odyssey and it hit me: there is no poetry. Only 'dialogue'. Who cares for Homer with no poetry???

David Bowman@dlbowman76.com · 2w ago

Ah! Whilst I am on a classical music jag, I'd forgotten that this year marks the 90th birthday of Steve Reich. To the best of my knowledge he's alive and well and still composing new music. If you want an introduction to his art, I recommend "Music for 18 Musicians."

Rainstitcher@rainstitcher.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reading the Gormenghast novels for the first time and man, are they a treat. Peake’s writing is succulent — “His voice came down from the shadows in huge wads of sound, or like the warm, sick notes of some prodigious mouldering bell of felt.” It’s the kind of sentence you re-read just for the joy.