Carrying Kevin to the Grave by Dick Westheimer Carrying Kevin to the Grave I told Kevin that we’re all moving at the speed of light in space-time. He replied that I was likely right but that wouldn’t help me haul the Gravely sickle bar attachme…

Carrying Kevin to the Grave by Dick Westheimer in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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𝓞𝓹𝓮𝓷 𝓒𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓟𝓸𝓮𝓶𝓼 & 𝓝𝓸𝓷-𝓯𝓲𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷

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The Art and Culture Council of Bucks County paired my poem with this painting.

Sorry to see CRR go. I’m happy to have been featured there a few times.

Come tomorrow, Sunday April 19.

Donna Vorreyer week continues with this beauty

Jean Follain translated by WS Merwin

I remember singing that song in cub scouts.

A powerful poem by @readinstead.bsky.social from @sixthfinch.bsky.social sixthfinch.com/beloff1.html

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

“Why is it that the most vocal cheerleaders of generative A.I. are always the hackiest motherfreakers around?” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

"Hawthorn" by Jody Gladding, featured in our new Spring Equinox Issue 20.

Library of Congress appoints Arthur Sze to a second 1-year term as US poet laureate U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze has been appointed to a second one-year term by the Library of Congress.

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we need the experimental schools, the wacky places, the schools that don't care about grades or majors, the places that allow/empower students to create their own weird paths, to be weirdos. & yes, we need such education to occur outside/beyond the existing university structures.

Beautiful evening for a bike ride after work.

The poem.

A Japanese government worker stands in a bear mask.

A digital lumberjack cuts down the woods. An aurora of polar bears wait within the trees to attack.

The book cover of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.

My new poem "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" is now published at the gorgeous Spring issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social

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Greene County Rescinds Poet Laureate Appointment Due to Facebook Posts The chairman of the Greene County Legislature is revoking the appointment of Esther Cohen as the county’s first poet laureate, citing two of her Facebook posts that lawmakers said appeared to celebrat...

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Emmett gets a little tired of posing for me but I’ll still make him do it.

Why does he look like a new character on Virgin River?

New author photo?

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Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil on the Living on Earth radio program. www.loe.org/shows/shows....

You have a theremin! Is it fun?

Nice. What's your stereo setup?

Looks like it's giving a lecture.

the "artificially flavored" version of reality is upon us.

I've complained to myself about this before--how journals "about us" pages are like Seinfeld, a show about nothing. litmagnews.substack.com/p/what-are-o...

Temporary Shelters Temporary Shelters [Clauser, Grant] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Temporary Shelters

My dog wants you to consider this book because he's in it. Every purchase helps pay for his Greenies. www.amazon.com/Temporary-Sh...

Next step comes when the kid wants to listen to the end of an NPR show.

Two Poems by Robert Fillman — Bracken It’s the red and black checked wool in the Penney’s catalog that has me seeing the men  in my life…

From Robert Fillman's poem "Holiday Gift Guide":

"...how those
glossy pages suddenly
feel like the shiny black coat
of a magnificent bear
now motionless...."

Enjoy the full poem plus "I tell myself I will learn" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/tw...

“It is the very error of the moon,
She comes more near the earth than she was wont,
And makes men mad.”
Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)