Wait. What!?! WOW!!!

U.K. Bars Ye Over Antisemitism, Months Before Major Festival Performances

I despise cancel culture, and I support this decision. Ye has apologized, but he has made no effort at repair. Until it is set right, it stays wrong.

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Shoulda thought of that!!!

Yes. I should add that I almost never text this friend, and my message began “Hello from Michael Kleber-Diggs…”

Was trying to text a friend and got this reply. Does this mean I’m poetry famous!?! 😎 😂 🤷🏿‍♂️

Giving and Taking — The Under Review — based on United We Stand by Gene Okok Beyond the lights and hype, before the purse and prize, there is the spartan gym— dim and grimy, grim, bereft of artifice and glamour. Here, there...

I’m grateful to the editors at the Under Review for nominating my poem, “Giving and Taking”, for a Pushcart Prize. It means a lot to me that they appreciate the poem.

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Lupines in a Yard in San Antonio, Texas My friend grieves while we search / for an authentic experience, like tacos

“draw closer. The flowers speak to us…”

I am grateful to the Academy of American Poets and to this month’s guest editor, Danusha Lameris for including my sonnet, “Lupines in a Yard in San Antonio, Texas”. I feel lucky and happy and blessed.

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🎶 “There’s the bum on his bar room stool…” 🎶 😎

🎶 “Good morning, Baltimore!” 🎶

Well, actually, good evening, Baltimore! Come to this EcoTheo reading on Thursday night at the Baltimore Brewhouse! A stunning lineup (and also me)!

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Poets and poetry lovers, do you have a few minutes to complete a survey on line breaks? It’s part of a research project led by one of my graduate students. Please feel free to share. Thanks for considering.

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They could be generous and loving. Instead they are selfish and hateful.

I assume it isn’t everyone on the team, but where it applies, I see only mean, sad, petty, small, greedy punks.

They were handed impossibly shiny gold, and, the second they got to the locker room, they turned into shit.

Congrats to the U.S. men’s hockey team, AND, I’m always amazed by people who grow up with so much privilege and so much support and go on to have so much material wealth and so many resources only to lead small, stingy, selfish lives, callous to the suffering of others.

They could be generous and loving. Instead they are selfish and hateful.

I assume it isn’t everyone on the team, but where it applies, I see only mean, sad, petty, small, greedy punks.

They were handed impossibly shiny gold, and, the second they got to the locker room, they turned into shit.

Congrats to the U.S. men’s hockey team, AND, I’m always amazed by people who grow up with so much privilege and so much support and go on to have so much material wealth and so many resources only to lead small, stingy, selfish lives, callous to the suffering of others.

I do indeed! I’m pleased to report that the patient made a full recovery!

Oh hey! Thanks Chris! ♥️

Dear Canada,

I hope you’re alright. Sorry you lost the hockey game today.

Say, if Minnesota becomes a Canadian province, we (“we”) WE would win gold in hockey forever.

And MN would be done federal occupation.

AND, I would live in a country with universal healthcare!

Let me know, eh?

MKD

What It Should Mean to Be American - Orion Magazine The private and public fight for humanity in the Twin Cities and beyond

For Orion Magazine, I wrote about the American Experiment - what it is and has been and what Minnesota shows us it could and should be. 1000 thanks to Kathleen Yale and Tajja Isen for all the edits and ideas.

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Thank you for sharing this!

Jonny, I was at an event tonight (I’ll not say where)- Bao Phi, Dobby Gibson, and Jim Moore were there too. This series has a lot of attention here. People are grateful. Thank you for all the work you’re doing to make it go so well.

Thank you for sharing this!

Is it me? Am I the only one who, you know… if the person in front of me at the ATM leaves their receipt behind… uh… you know… checks on how they’re doing… uh… um… financially…?

I’ve seen enough! The Minnesota Wild will win Lord Stanley’s Cup this season!

This is so kind. Thank you. 🙏

I’m not even that mad, but step outside with me right quick.

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily Performing Arts Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Host Maggie Smith is your daily poetry companion. Poetry is one of the greatest tools we have to wield our own attention — to consider our own lives and ...

So grateful to have “Gloria Mundi” featured on The Slowdown podcast this morning. Thank you to the host, Maggie Smith, for seeing the poem fully and reading it beautifully.

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Well, my goodness. Thank you for this. So much. I am well. I hope you are too!

A photo of a screen on an airplane, on which is written Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico).

That parenthetical is giving real “once and future” energy. Fool so foolish he thought he could change it forever. They’re placating you, fool. You’re a clown, fool.

We hope to see you there!

Tiny-ass Donald Trump cereal boxes! We got much bigger cereal boxes (way more cereal) under Joe Biden!