The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
-Marge Piercy
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As we move into #BlackHistory month, excited to share 3 poems published in the latest volume of Freedom: Journal of Research in Africana Studies
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From my "Upon the Body" collection: Black art/lit/history + public health
#PoetryIsNotALuxury
#StatsAndStanzas
There is a bird and a stone in your body. Your job is not to kill the bird with the stone. Victoria Chang
Things to do:
Stop driving to McDonalds
Stop flying to Bermuda
Stop lying to Buddha
#poetryisnotdead #poetryislife #poetryisnotaluxury #poem
Tried to find an uninteresting news story—ended up questioning the state of journalism itself. When headlines numb us and truth gets buried, maybe it’s poets who’ll carry the torch. New reflection + Audre Lorde tribute on the blog.
#ThisSideOfTheApple #PoetryIsNotALuxury #MediaCritique #AudreLorde
Left side of image shows a small tractor engine with black rubber hose. Right side of image shows an orange notebook and blue mechanical pencil.
I missed being in the print shop today, but at least managed to write three poems and replace the tractor’s busted radiator hose.
#gratitude #rurallife #nelsoncounty #poetry #poetryisnotaluxury #poemsandtractors #johndeere #shadetreemechanic
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Linda Pastan What We Want What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names- now they want us. But what we want appears in dreams, wearing disguises. We fall past, holding out our arms and in the morning our arms ache. We don't remember the dream, but the dream remembers us. It is there all day as an animal is there under the table, as the stars are there even in full sun. From Waiting For My Life w.w.norton 1981. #lindapastan #poetryisnotaluxury
What We Want
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So much to thinkfeelbe with in these times. #poetryisnotaluxury @alexispauline.bsky.social
Next week I will read story time to my students in Environmental Anthropology from the two books on the right. Vital, breathing work and words!
To walk
the land like
a dog chasing
the smells
of all
that is
alive
#poeticillustration #poetryisnotaluxury
Malena Mörling HAPPINESS How far away is your happiness? How many inches? How many yards? How many bus rides to work and back? How many doorways and stairwells? How many hours awake in the dark belly of the night which contains all the world's bedrooms, all dollhouse-sized? How far away is your happiness? How many words? How many thoughts? How much pavement? How much thread in the enormous sewing machine of the present moment? From Astorian University of Pittsburgh, 2006.
#malenamörling
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From Astorian, 2006.
THE GAME OF GAME by Nikki Giovanni when all the cards are in when all the chips are counted the smiles smiled the pictures taken i wonder if they'll say you played a fair game of game? From Re: Creation Broadside Lotus, 1970.
Used a few poetry prompts from @josephfasano.bsky.social lovely book "The Magic Words" with my students today. We had a blast...and I even wrote my own poem alongside them. Thank you for putting together such an important resource. Well worth the investment! ✍️ #poetry #teacher #poetryisnotaluxury
Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 20
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#Poetry
#PoemChallenge
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#FrankOstaseski #SonosDeathPoem
#IndianOcean #BlueLagoonZanzibar
Sono’s Zen Death Poem
Sono
Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 19
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#Poetry
#PoemChallenge
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#IfIMustDie #RefaatAlareer
#LetItBeATale🪁 ترجمة سنان أنطون
If I Must Die
Refaat Alareer
Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 17
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#Poetry
#PoemChallenge
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#AdaLimón #WonderWoman
#ElizaInJambiani
Wonder Woman
Ada Limón 🧵1/5
Young woman dancing at a wedding
Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 17
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#PoemChallenge
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#JaneHirshfield
#ABlessingforWedding
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Day 16
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#LucilleClifton #IAmRunningIntoTheNewYear
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i am running into a new year
Lucille Clifton
Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 15
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#RaymondCarver #LateFragment
#SixMonthsMe
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Late Fragment
Raymond Carver
Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 14
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#ThomasCentolella #InTheEveningWelShallBeExaminedOnLove #Ethiopia #Lalibela #BieteMaryam #ቤተማርያም
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Day 13
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#WilliamShakespeare #Sonnet116 #zanzibar #indianocean
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Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare
Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 12
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#Poetry
#PoemChallenge
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#DerekWalcott #LoveAfterLove
#AswanEgypt #NileSunset
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Derek Walcott
Love after Love
Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 11
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#PoemChallenge
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#MargaretAtwood #LatePoems
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Late Poems
Margaret Atwood
Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 10
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#PoemChallenge
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#AliceWalker #IWillKeepBrokenThings🧵1/4
I Will Keep Broken Things
Alice Walker
Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 9
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#Poetry
#PoemChallenge
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#UrsulaLeGuin #AlwaysComingHome
#CapeRangeNationalPark
#NingalooCoast. 🧵1/5
from Always Coming Home
Ursula LeGuin
Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 8
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#JoyHarjo #PerhapsTheWorldEndHere
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Perhaps the World Ends Here
Joy Harjo
Share 20 poems that have stayed with you. One poem per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 7
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#PoemChallenge
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#JackGilbert #FailingAndFlying
#SemaphoreBeachSouthAustralia 🧵1/6
Failing and Flying
Jack Gilbert
