A Poem a Day - 2026 National Poetry Month In celebration of the 30th annual National Poetry Month, Classic 107.3 and Leviathan Bookstore present

I got to help with Classic 107.3's Poem-A-Day for Poetry Month with my old Literature for the Halibut fishing buddies: soundcloud.com/raf-stl/sets...

Events on Earth are really harshing my Moon joy

Lynching of Cleo Wright - Wikipedia

Do you know their names? Power. I couldn't remember the Sikeston story and just looked it up...heartbreaking but powerful to see the STL NAACP's work. The wikipedia article explains the Pearl Harbor connection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynchin...

In June 1970, civil rights leader, Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke at Kiel Auditorium for a voter registration rally. This advertisement appeared in the St. Louis American on June 18, 1970. #MicrofilmMonday

'Wake Now in the Fire' author heads to St. Louis to discuss book banning and student protest Marjane Satrapi’s 2000 autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis, about her childhood in Tehran during the 1979 Iranian Revolution, was such a widespread hit, it was adapted into a French animated mov...

Jarrett Dapier interprets the true events of the banning of ‘Persepolis’ in his new graphic novel.

The first day of Community Radio St. Louis is so sweet and triumphant! www.crstl.fm

Join me!

Not my first but lately been thinking about seeing Patti Smith at Mississippi Nights in 2001. There were Green Party community organizers in the crowd. Patti took off her combat boot and threw her sweaty sock at a man. It was hot. People have the power!

Did you know #Missouri currently has the 12th highest sales tax?

If R lawmakers are successful in eliminating the income tax, it is estimated that sales taxes will need to raise up to 19% in some areas of the state to make up for the revenue loss

Happy Friday to everybody but especially the Kansas City City Council for blocking ICE concentration camp permits! 🗽
www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

How a St. Louis cartoonist replaced 'Dilbert' in the Washington Post "Heart of the City" replaced "Dilbert" in the Washington Post.

A reminder that my strip took over Dilberts vacant spot in the Washington Post after they dropped his ass. 😎

www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...

#Missouri women who dream of running for office or staffing political campaigns, take note!

I just finished Ada Limon's collected works, Startlement, and will return it to Central today!

As a woman in middle age who uses exclamation marks, I really love the permanent sign on the side of Menards that says We Have Cement Blocks!!

Again, Michael Brown is unexpectedly in a poem. This time in Kevin Young's 2025 book Night Watch, at the beginning of a series based on Dante's Inferno. From "II. The Descent"

What was next:
arms raised to reach

the banking birds--
hands up don't
shoot--or as if we might

ourselves take flight.

Breaking: We are in Court fighting to to ensure fair and accurate ballot language on the misleading, anti-abortion Amendment 3, which would end the right to reproductive freedom in Missouri. Missourians are required to have fair and accurate ballot language when asked to change the constitution.

Nice!

Lots of Emily Dickinson in St. Louis this month!
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Every time I unexpectedly find Michael Brown in something I'm reading it's a shock to my nervous system and a reminder of the enduring power of the Ferguson Uprising. Last night it was at the end of a 2020 Rick Bardot poem about helicopters.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.

The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Columbia's B265-25 targets people experiencing houselessness by criminalizing people in public spaces and threatening 1A rights. It could apply to peaceful protests, fundraising efforts, or distribution of direct services and goods. Tell your Council Member: these are not our values. NO on B265-25.

Guys I just sent Josh Hawley a thank you email about something. It was for condemning nazi Nick Fuentes! Except I was mad that Eric Schmidtt didn't condemn him so in my email I accidentally said Eric Fuentes. Freudian slip!

Kansas Republicans fail to get enough support to gerrymander congressional maps The Kansas Senate had enough support to force a special session, but GOP leadership failed to get 84 House Republicans to agree to return to Topeka.

Oh snap even more good news today! thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...

Jewish exodus underway from Heritage Foundation’s antisemitism initiative over Tucker Carlson - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Project Esther, launched as a conservative strategy to fight antisemitism, appears to be unraveling after Heritage's president defended Carlson’s friendly interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes...

More good news today: Project Esther seems to be unraveling! www.jta.org/2025/11/03/u...

Frogs protesting

From a friend in Columbia, MO — the frogs have made it. A huge #nokings rally there, too. 🐸

‘We the people are pissed’

The No Kings protest on the Tamm Bridge, Highway 64 overpass, which started this morning, Sat., Oct. 18, was organized by DanceTheVote in collaboration with Indivisible and ResistSTL.

📸 Dawn Suggs | St. Louis American

#STLNoKings #StopOccupyingOurCities #STLLocalNews

A sign reading "No Kings Just Prince"

The most Minnesotan protest sign. #NoKings

A protestor with a sign that says "your grandpappy didn't run 'shine thru these hills for you to be a bootlicker.'"

We are hootin through these hollers and don't eat leather.

#nokings