Sometimes I can't understand grammar. Especially when she takes out her teeth.
D. A. Powell
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Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈 http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
I don't know why they bother to ask him to raise his right hand: absolutely nobody expects him to keep the oath of office.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 15h agoTrump loyalist Todd Blanche confirmed by Senate as US attorney general
When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.
Dorothea Lange, The Road West, New Mexico, 1938
Thought this was Trump's new hair
Eric Champnella@echamp.bsky.social · 2d agoMust watch. Trust me. 😂😂😂
Scientists have captured images of the sun's surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade. https://to.pbs.org/4zhrJRM
WATCH: Scientists release most detailed sun images ever
Researchers were able to peek at its scorching surface with the help of the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
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"The recalled cartons — sold under brand names including Kroger, Simple Truth, Brookshire’s, Cal-Maine, and Country Morning — were distributed to stores and food service outlets across Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, and New Mexico."
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d ago1.5 million cartons of eggs have been recalled for Salmonella — here’s what you need to know (and do) to stay safe
Both poignant and ironic use of the term "historic lows."
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoAs successive heat waves hit Europe, record-breaking drought has shrunk the Danube River to historic lows – revealing the hulls of sunken Nazi warships.
It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in the crotch
"For Our Students Reading the Odyssey" by Brenda Hillman. From her 2022 book In a Few Minutes Before Later.
Registration is open for both sections of my 9-Month Novel Intensive with @literary-arts.org! All levels and all genres of novel-length fiction are welcome. Join us via Zoom on Wednesday or Thursday evenings, beginning next month. literary-arts.org/event/nine-m... literary-arts.org/event/nine-m...
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If you write about what you wish to change, it will change. If you keep it inside, it will eat you alive.
What’s the most appetizing double spondee you can think of. Mine’s footlong hot dog.
D. A. Powell@dapowell.bsky.social · 4d agoWhat's the most appetizing double spondee you can think of. Mine's flapjack shortstack.
What's the most appetizing double spondee you can think of. Mine's flapjack shortstack.
I am a happy misreader of words. Like...my eye sees the word "details" and I get all excited because my brain has received it as "oxtails."
Hey-o, friends, poets, good people! Sixteen Rivers poets Lenore Myers, Carolyn Miller, & Dane Cervine are road tripping once again, this time reading at one of our favorite Northern California bookstores—Readers Books' in Sonoma. Come for a cool reading on a hot August night! #poetrysky #poetry
Crooks being crooked. Donors getting cooked.
Raw Story@rawstory.com · 5d agoThree months after it was unveiled with fanfare in the Oval Office, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's reality TV road trip series still hasn't released a single episode despite millions in donations from the very industries he regulates.
Every time I read the words "wild fire" I relive the trauma of that song.
I usually don't intentionally read anything that's good for me, but I read this poem and felt not only that it was utterly delightful but also that it was good for me and I hope it's good for you as well. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Ondine | Timothy Donnelly
To speak freely, I could never land on anything worth talking about but from the moment they shut me up, I’ve been full of things to say.It’s not that
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