Paisley Rekdal
@paisleyrekdal.bsky.social
Author and poet. NEA, Guggenheim, Fulbright Fellow. See paisleyrekdal.com
The real question is when are we going to take to the streets to stop it?
Kamala Harris@kamalaharris.com · 5mo agoThe President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
Once again, trying to make a good faith effort to find this site engaging.
Maybe, at some point, we have to make the hard admission to ourselves, readily seen by the rest of the world: In fact, this IS who we are.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 7mo ago‘If bad things happen, you are the problem; do not provoke; keep up the hope; things will be better – by the midterms, in four years, some day.’ Yiyun Li on enduring America, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Read @adroitjournal.bsky.social's Larry Levis project with essays by David St. John, @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social, James Ciano, @lizajohnson1.bsky.social, Jon Pineda, @sharalessley.bsky.social, @cubistoctopus.bsky.social, @nxo.bsky.social, @megg-bean.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
Issue Fifty-Six
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A Thanksgiving poem for us all: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57937/...
Thanks
Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and ...
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Sharing because I'm hiking around Patagonia for a month and I need to remember which books to put on library e-reader--
NPR@npr.org · 10mo agoBooks We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
No, seriously: can we PLEASE not learn anything more about Nuzzi-Lizza-RFK JR? As a poet, I implore the universe to black- hole vaccuum those sexts up. There is no basement to the awfulness of this story.
Look at this beautiful poem by my friend, Lisa Bickmore!! poets.org/poem/flit-sp...
flit [sparrow]
a ghost garden last year’s still blooms / on the patio an undying marigold
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Today, today: come hear Stacie Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, and Darcie Little Badger read from BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD, 7 PM, Finch Lane Gallery. Free!
Huge contragulations to Patricia Smith and Rabih Alameddine for winning National Book Awards!! www.nationalbook.org/winners-of-t...
Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced
Winners of the National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony
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Every time I get on this site I learn something else I didn't want to know about Olivia Nuzzi.
In memory of Joe Hill today! www.mappingslc.org/this-was-her...
Mapping Salt Lake City | Stories, Memories & History - Joe Hill
After his execution on November 19, 1915, envelopes containing Joe Hill's ashes were sent to IWW union halls around the country. Every state but one received their share of the famous labor organi...
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Honestly, as a young writer, I thought I'd grow up and live in NYC but clearly that did not happen.
This Thursday! Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms event, celebrating launch of BEYOND THE GLITTERING WORLD. Come hear Stacie Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, and Darcie Little Badger read at Finch Lane Gallery, 7 PM. Free and open to the public--
$50K #SchnitzerPrizeoftheWest honors exceptional collaboration and innovation in addressing issues such as water scarcity, tribal rights & sovereignty, conservation, wildfire & climate adaptation, and the dynamics of human communities, migration & identity. See highdesertmuseum.org/schnitzer-pr...
World may be on fire, but sometimes it's pretty to witness:
Imagine that a child sex trafficker calls *YOU* the worst person he knows.
Just me in a stained t-shirt in hotel room, watching crap TV while eating a small bucket of eating cheesy potatoes and writing Guggenheim recommendations and an intro for my talk tomorrow. This is it, guys. The very definition of "mid-career writer." Also, possibly, "future heart disease patient."
ALLLIGHT SAVING TIME Turn your clocks sideways to the hour where no- body can get a good clean shot at you. --Kenneth Patchen
Sheryl Gay Stolberg@sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11mo agoFULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Well, Jane Goodall never gave up, either activism or hope. So I won't either. Rest in Power.
Now, call me a bleeding-heart liberal who got canceled by the USAFA, but I think telling the military to have a "war war war war war all the time war" mentality is probably not going to lead to great outcomes for its soldiers. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Trump and Hegseth Recount Familiar Partisan Complaints to Top Military Leaders
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Just so long as it's not about the plums in your icebox: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Wildest Blackberry Poems by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Others (Gift Article)
Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit.
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