Today’s poem is selected by Zoë Fay-Stindt (@zoefaystindt.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.
“Children Listen” appeared in Poem-a-Day, by the Academy of American Poets, 2018. Shared here with deep gratitude.
Prisms danced on the cover of Bird Body this morning! Thank you @zoefaystindt.bsky.social for meeting with the Blue Stones last night to share new work and talk "stretching our strangeness" for the coming creative season. You've inspired us to embrace the wondrous and the weird.
i'm struggling with how to write this post without seeming like i'm capitalizing on trans suffering.
but if you're like me, and reading the work of other trans writers makes you feel less alone, i publish a whole quarterly mag for trans writers and artists.
it's what i've got.
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Y'all, some of your favorite small presses and literary organizations just got a gut punch from the NEA. Today would be a great day to support them.
May we suggest that you buy a book from @hubcitypress.bsky.social?
Excited to share two pieces in the Jan/Feb issue of POETRY ✨ “Girl Blood Ritual One” and “Girl Blood Ritual Two” www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amelia...
Please help Doaa get the medical treatment she so desperately needs
There is no way you should comply if your employer texts you a survey asking if you are Jewish. The "current administration" probably wants Jews to turn in anyone who has taken part in pro-Palestinian protests so they can be declared "un-American" & deport them. Don't let yourself be used like this.
fried rice that has been deconstructed, so it has the peas, corn, and carrots organized into regimented rows and the rice sort of shoved off to the side at the end of the ban in this amorphous blob
saving this for the next time someone asks me how to organize a book of poems
It was disturbing to be in court today.
As I wrote:
[I]n an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to “influence” children.
Excited for this one!
I might steal both of these ideas (the rec and the screen-free!) 🥲
A Reading for the End of the World Tues 4/22 7-10pm free Shadowbox Durham 20 poets read into our shared apocalypse Brian Howe Bridget Bell Chris Tonelli Chris Vitiello CJ Martin: Dasan Ahanu Destiny Hemphill Dylan Angelli Fred Joiner Han VanderHart Joanna Penn Cooper Joe Fletcher Laura Jaramillo Lauren Hunter Marta Nunez Pouzols Michael Cavuto Michelle Dove Sarah Rose Nordgren Susannah Simpson Tessa Bolsover
Hope y’all come out and join us for poetry tomorrow in Durham, NC—
free to all ❤️📚🎙️ Some righteously stunning poets assembling gosh darn it I will try to be AWAKE! 🌙 💫
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From the Department of Things Columbia Could Have Done
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lands on my shoulder it's a face mask
The Museum of African American History in Boston is losing federal funding. You can help. (Or find something local). I know we can't save everything that gets defunded. This is the one I've supported today.
Who's the sucker for focusing on art instead of a 401K now, hmmmmm?
weird, what could explain this
To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
A few thoughts about today's protests:
1) The April 5 Hands Off day of action clearly ranks as one of the very largest mobilizations in U.S. history, by two different measures:
-- total national turnout (~ 3 million)
-- number of local protests (~ 1400)
The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
Hope you can join us! This lineup is so 🔥!!! Email me for the zoom link!
I know you've tried everything, but have you tried just actually writing it?
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this
never forget how “unskilled labour” suddenly became “essential work” when a pandemic reminded the wealthy of workers’ true importance in the world
—D. A. Powell, “(Mis)adventures in Poetry”
Zoë, a white-skinned, brown-haired, nonbinary person sits in a green field.
Our attention is so precious. Some q's I’ve been asking myself recently: in the turbulence of shock & awe, who do I devote myself to today? How can I more deeply attend, or tend to, the beings in my communities near & far? Grateful to gather around this reverence with others in Oga Po'geh this week.
12 more days!
