Reginald Harris
@reggieh.bsky.social
"Don't leave the arena to the fools." - Toni Cade Bambara Poet, writer, librarian, etc.
The gatekeepers and obfuscators are already attempting to rewrite the Arday affair with no indictment of the university as institution and with even less implication for the actors who willing hold up and insist on its deadly culture. Your fine slick words cannot evade our eyes. We see you.
LIVE NOW! Join Barbara Ransby and Anthony Arnove to celebrate the release of the expanded edition of Howard Zinn's SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Organized with @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWKT...
Barbara Ransby and Anthony Arnove in Conversation on SNCC: The New Abolitionists
Join Barbara Ransby and Anthony Arnove for a discussion on SNCC, one of the most significant and creative organizations to shape the course of the civil rights movement in the United…
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"She had a way of establishing intimacy between herself and the reader: you feel like she's right there, speaking to you, telling you what she sees and knows and wonders about. Much of her work has the tone of a love letter..." —Sigrid Nunez on Virginia Woolf www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Writers Talking Writers: Sigrid Nunez on Virginia Woolf and Keith Ridgway on Samuel Beckett
The National Book Award winner and Rooney Prize recipient discuss the enduring legacy of two boundary-pushing 20th century legends.
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For this year's #SealeyChallenge, we curated a list of 31 #poetry books and 3 poetry anthologies on Split This Rock's Bookshop storefront: bit.ly/4ySbavz We're a #Bookshop affiliate, so when you buy books via our list, we earn a commission (but doesn’t cost you extra!).
2026 Sealey Challenge Reading List
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Early registration is now open for our fall workshops, online and in-person, ft. Robert Wood Lynn, Joan Kwon Glass, Cynthia Cruz, Karl Michael Iglesias & more! Through August 16, members save $40 and nonmembers save $25 on all workshops. Register at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
LAST CHANCE to register for our immersive, intensive short-term professional development course with Jay Deshpande (@jdeshpan) & Miller Oberman (@MillerOberman) on the craft of teaching creative writing. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/te...
Who else, historically, made it difficult for people to pursue arts, religion, music, philosophy, education? Authoritarian regimes, in their various forms. Every. Single. One.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
"Already a mooted goal and tomorrow perhaps an arms base, a livid sector, the full moon dominates the dark." Robert Hayden was born #OnThisDay in 1913.
Robert Hayden - "Full Moon"
No longer throne of a goddess to whom we pray,
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I tried to bring the focus back where it needs to be: "Whatever the strategic (mis)calculations behind this crisis, what is indisputable is that on any given day, there are thousands of young people in Morocco who are willing to risk everything for a chance to live in Europe." tinyurl.com/mpeyzavu
The Makings of a Mass Crisis
Unless Morocco’s government provides better jobs, education, healthcare, and human rights to young people, the crisis we witnessed this last week will happen again.
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For the teachers! I added a section at the bottom of my guide for reading and writing visual poems that allows you to download the entire packet as a single PDF, or as chapters. This should make it far easier to print out. You can find everything here: keithswilson.com/secret-page/
Secret Page – Keith S. Wilson
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UPDATE! Dr. Ameaka was released by ICE last night, per her lawyer www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
Johns Hopkins researcher Fatima Ameaka released from ICE custody
A public health researcher at the Johns Hopkins University who was arrested by immigration officials while boarding a domestic flight has been released after spending days in federal custody across th...
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Instead of going to the protest, I wrote a poem about not going to the protest. Sigh.
I’m very happy to receive the 20th book in the SUNY Series in Latin American Cinema, which I coedit with Leslie Marsh: John Mraz’s Film and History in Revolutionary Cuba, which studies ICAIC and proposes historical readings of Memorias del subdesarrollo and other films.
SUPPORT THIS IN YOUR STATE: Prison Policy Initiative endorses the Extreme Temperatures Injustice in Prisons Act "Nearly 19,000 people in federal prisons experienced heat-related illnesses between 2022 and 2025. A new bill is looking to change that"
Prison Policy Initiative endorses the Extreme Temperatures Injustice in Prisons Act
Nearly 19,000 people in federal prisons experienced heat-related illnesses between 2022 and 2025. A new bill is looking to change that.
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THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM arrives in a UK edition this summer. @waterstones.bsky.social is running a deal for preorders on the book. Get 25% off with the code SUMMER26. I love the cover for this one (as I’ve loved the covers for every edition of this book). UK readers, I hope you enjoy.
Brooklyn Book launch for Starr Davis' new book Affidavit at Brooklyn Poets this Friday.
National security should mean everyone has housing, food, healthcare, and clean and air water.
And in a few years, when we feel the effects of this loss of brain power, these people will say it was immigrants who cut off America’s nose to spite our face. Not them. Guaranteed.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last mo.The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
Tonight Trump will re-litigate the 2020 election. Why? In support of his SAVE act, which is actually a Voter Suppression Act. This is a Hail Mary effort to keep his corrupt power grab from being swamped by a blue wave in November.
"...the merger combines two of the five major Hollywood studios, more than 50 basic cable networks...(HBO and Showtime)...(Paramount+, Discovery+, and HBO Max), ... (Paramount Television, CBS Studios, and Warner Bros. Television) into one company." prospect.org/2026/07/14/c...
Challenge to Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger Focuses on Theaters, Basic Cable - The American Prospect
The lawsuit, filed by 12 states, makes the case that a merged studio will have more leverage to dictate terms to distributors, leading to higher prices for everyone.
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Please tell me this is as fake as the image. Please. Dystopia is already here. No need to push children further into it nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n...
Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher
Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.
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This was my beef back when I watched SyFy on cable: You spent all that money to make this dreck when there are so many good writers with good work out there available and ready to go?! WTF...
Victor LaValle@victorlavalle.bsky.social · last mo.Yes.