Freddie Hubbard - Cold Turkey YouTube video by Erlendur Svavarsson

Morning listening: Freddie Hubbard's take on Lennon's Cold Turkey. (with Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, Lenny White-- 1970)

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Matins YouTube video by John Zorn - Topic

Listening to this Zorn piece as we get ready for bed. Hopes, hopes.

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Whiteboard on an office door with black marker doodles of Snoopy and three cats. One of the cats is saying "You're doing great."

This is the whiteboard on my office door. I'm not sure who has added these details, but I appreciate the gesture.

“The Averted Eye”: Le Guin’s Warning Against Power and Passivity - Harvard Political Review Like in Le Guin’s imagined world, Anarres, even when our nation’s foundations are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, authoritarian structures materialize when we forget to reinforce solidari...

"The Dispossessed has matured my political views, reshaped my values, and changed my life. Reading it showed me how to confront a political landscape increasingly hostile to productive dialogue." —Alec del Pino Gil-Casares in The Harvard Political Review

It's spring which means it's time to clear out your old ear hairs to allow for new growth.

This is AMAZING.

Orban achieved a level of authoritarian consolidation unthinkable here and they still successfully got rid of him. Never let the doomers have the final say.

We're watching a theatrical reading of Aphra Behn's The Rover (1677).

Go OKC arts scene!

Just turned last night's dream into a poem. It may just be for me-- but it felt right.

Sometimes you just gotta make the damn thing.

For National Poetry Month I would like to invite people to go outside without a phone and notice when two things are trying to resemble each other. You don't even have to write it down.

Magazine cover at the CVS just now:

"Why AI is the new life hack."

Actually, the whole magazine section is pretty grim.

Just now learning about Brooks Otterlake

I need to read more Warner-- The Corner That Held Them is up next.

Great to see Lolly Willowes on there!

I can think of a few, but even the worst have interesting qualities (thinking of my hometown, Baytown, Texas).

And a great city is not so great if you're in a season of struggle (for me, that would be Chicago).

Anne Carson:

"There are days it is foggy in Venice. You cannot quite see the person you are following. But you can hear the feet going TAP TAP TAP away down the corridor. TAP TAP TAP there he goes ahead of you. TAP TAP TAP or is she behind you? TAP TAP TAP perhaps you are following yourself."

Just write anything. It literally doesn't have to make sense even to you. If you're any good at this, you will be the last person to ever know

Today I read some poems at the Scissortail festival in Ada, Oklahoma. And I met some lovely poets.

Received some feedback on a journal rejection. I am happy to have it.

But the comments have shaken me. Thoughtful and respectful, but the general judgment is... these poems are... sort of ok in places. I guess?

I know that it's all subjective. Still, not a reponse you hope for.

Thank you!

Again, THIS

Thanks so much to ANMLY for believing in this poem!

Today I'm participating in a generative writing workshop-- my first one!

We attended No Kings in Knoxville yesterday.

Now we're seated for Julian Lage on the last day of Big Ears.

So much beauty this weekend. And some hope.

National Poetry Month Day 16: D. A. Powell - The Rumpus Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.

A Palm Sunday poem

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So glad to hear the theater is thriving again! (We are in OKC now)

Yay Oklahoma!

Not sure I can do this again.

So many great memories of that place.