Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

Remembering you on your birthday with one of your poems that I carry and that carries me.

The idea that the President of the United States could publish an image of himself as the Messiah and no news outlet covers it is the biggest indictment of the American free press.

“Tell the world... to keep this energy going. Let's invest in togetherness.” ~Victor Glover, Artemis II crew member

Bill seeks commission to expose history of boarding schools Legislation was recently reintroduced by two Native American members of Congress to create a formal commission to investigate one of the most mortifying chapters of federal Native policy – the

Unlike Canada, the U.S. has not had a truth and reconciliation commission around boarding schools–assimilation schools that systematically abused and neglected Native kids. Proposed Congressional legislation could change that. www.cherokeephoenix.org/news/bill-se...

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

On this morning in particular,
the first varied thrush calling
between snow squalls.

Learning history is vital. But it can’t substitute for doing the work today.

As Adrienne Rich said, “We’re not simply trapped in the present... We do have choices. We’re living through a certain part of history that needs us to live it and make it and write it. We can make that history.”

Get a load of April’s fabulous frog rattle like freight cars in the night

Lorine Niedecker

I am so green hungry.
#longwinterinalaska
#alaska

I use this site all the time for used books!

Join us for an off-site reading during the #AWP2026 conference! March 6th, from 6-8pm, at the Black Genius Art Show. ➡️ 15 readers will read their work from "Taking Liberties" & "On Freedom" editions of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social
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Always a punch right to the gut.

You want me to care about everything, but I'm so exhausted.
(I understand this is a feature not a bug of the current system.)
This morning, I took a few moments to care about beauty.

This book is a masterclass!

"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology.

mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.

But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.

Books Launching in February 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in February 2026 from CLMP members.   How to Disappear and Why by Kyle Minor Saraban...

Check out this list of small press books coming out this month—at @clmporg.bsky.social! 📚💙

another guy who never protested before radicalized to the point of tears by watching masked ICE agents terrify children in his neighborhood

the Republicans are not ready or mentally capable of comprehending the backlash they have generated

Behind the door was a wing. Behind the wing
a mountain. Behind the mountain a memory.
Behind the memory the words. Behind
the words was brokenness. And wings.

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Just so you know what they are saying and who they are listening to.

Shrinking | Frightening Fishes (Main Title Theme) - Benjamin Gibbard & Tom Howe | WaterTower YouTube video by WaterTower Music

Sometimes you need get up and let the music carry you. youtu.be/gIR3ct774B8?...

Riddle me this: It cost $150 less to travel roundtrip from Anchorage to Seattle than it costs to travel roundtrip from Homer to Anchorage.
#alaska

I always need to remind myself that jealousy is just pointing at what I wish I was doing.

Today, I needed a little shelter. Thank you, Robert Hass. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48851/...
#poetry

I feel like you’ve read my mind. 😂

Of course that democracy was built on stolen land by enslaved people....

Our culture’s inability to believe women has brought our democracy to its knees.

Whether you believe in any of that, now is the time of year to listen for movement welling up from the earth, for it is cleansing sunlight and the warmth surging from deep in the soil that breaks up ice and drives it away. /fin