Bird Songs The latest in our poetry series features work from a new avian-themed anthology—and original paintings.

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So grateful for my Wood Duck poem to be publshed here, and with these fine writers.

our sign off for the season comes under better auspices. (I had a stroke last fall) . What a fun year, and how fun it was to read you document it. GO Hawks!

Seahawks fans owe a debt of gratitude to Sam Darnold. He went from "seeing ghosts" to helping Seahawks fans exorcise the ghosts haunting us from XLIX! Thanks, Sam!

#SuperBowl #LX #Seahawks

I loved how imperfect perfect this team was.

There's a lot of America that i wont lift a finger for, but I'll fight for the one I'm seeing today. Also there is something beautifully human about the hawks, something so imperfectly perfect.

J9 playing like John Stallworths's grandson

BIG RED

Poetry Suite( From Can’t Find My Way Home) : Mad Homie Freak Out at His Set up Boy’s Funeral

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Nikki Giovanni: 1943–2024 If she wasn’t “the people champion” as much as she was when she was young, she remained her people’s champion, and her Ali-like evolution…

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One year ago today.

'I'm Always on the Bus': How Transit Advocacy Helped Katie Wilson Become Seattle's Next Mayor — Streetsblog USA "I really think that our public transit system is such a big part of people's daily experience of government," says the incoming mayor of the Emerald City.

Stoked to have a new interview with Katie Wilson (no relation), Seattle's new mayor, Transit Riders Union co-founder, and living proof that bold vision for (and wonky obsession with) transportation reform can win elections.

Hey, if you’re a Seattle/WA author with a book coming out next year and you have a firm pub date, please let me know for potential inclusion in the Seattle Times’s 2026 book preview. (Space is limited but I’ll do my best.)

Drop a link either in replies or at my email: thisispaulconstant@gmail.com.

Even with SNAP benefits set to be reinstated across the country, we still need to be helping our neighbors.

There is a Discord called Surplus2Share.

If you need help download Discord and go to the Surplus2Share. They can get you help!!

Thank goodness for good people who do care!

#SheShed

The Shadow Of His Smile 2025 will forever be the year one of the most gifted soul artists in black music history transitioned into one of the most haunting.

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AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

So much of the young Jesse at his best. So much of the magic in our old labor masters in his words. Such a gift to make everyone feel they have a stake in this. So much about us, we, and a politics that feels like a light that defied a darkness that has plagued our team for so long.

MbilI - Martinez is a great fight

Very curious to see if these comedians are given a list of topics they’re not allowed to joke about at the festival. Do you think they’ll risk their paychecks to bravely uphold the values of free speech and speaking truth to power that they’re always going on about?

The Great( and at times Stoically Decent) American Misanthrope. Percival Everett deserves his place in literary history because of his understanding that, in life, you have to learn how to take a loss

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You helped me get on my feet so I could do this touring and traveling. You made sure I could eat, have my meds, and get back to health. That's enough of a birthday present for me, and I thank you for it.

I am incredibly grateful for my Cascade and beyond friends who helped me with food money and gigs, which prevented me from going to the state hospital. Rib and hip complications from a bad fall + a college gig whose check went south left me in a horrible predictament food wise today...

Pay robert lashley using PayPal.Me Go to paypal.me/misterlashley and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

Outside of my poetry life, I have been struggling very much. In April, a colleague and distant cousin who stole from my late aunt showed up to my house with a gun. He got arrested, but the functional left from my "functionally disabled" title. paypal.me/misterlashley

Hmmmm. Chris Rufo was really angry about Claudine Gay's missing citations, but this report doesn't seem to bother him at all. I wonder what the difference could be?

It's been a brutal half a year( elections, two guns pulled on my head, a stroke, and brutal fall down a hill) But I'm getting better and am excited to give you my collected works this fall.

How to Seattle: Arts & Culture You never know when the Welcome Weiner will wave hello.

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Thank you for the kind words. Megan( Re: town hall) I take y'alls esteem seriously. I'm just going to work on being a better writer and human every day, but I'm glad that a coalition of new folks and lit vets still wants me around.

AOC: I was watching earlier today on TV, someone was saying, “Why are AOC and Bernie going to Idaho?”

I’ll give you one simple answer: It’s because you matter

Under con- ditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.

Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.

Black text on a white background. Text is an excerpt from #JackStrawWriter Robert Lashley. Text is “The glory, not for you but your whippings, your blood trials by fire with you on top the cards stacked so heavy in your favor."

Let's kick off #PoetryMonth with an excerpt from #JackStrawWriter @robertlashley.bsky.social.

Pyrrhic Victory at the Corner Exhibition Match
(I flip a title of a Jean Toomer poem)

#JackStrawWriters #JackStrawWriters2016 #Poetry #RecordingStudio #SeattleRecordingStudio #Seattle #PoetryMonth2025

AOC’s FULL SPEECH: ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ rally SHAKES UP ARIZONA YouTube video by Diario AS

People are angry; town halls overflow to capacity. Many are scared, concerned, and ready (after two months) for a new direction. If you wonder why Bernie and AOC are drawing such massive crowds, you must watch this video. This eighty-three-year-old man and a former waitress are electric.

#AOC2028

My Favorite Auntie Passed Yesterday. The spirits are going to love the hell out of my Aunt Joan.

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