last night’s Night Light reading was a tremendous joy!! I literally had to remind myself I had a body at multiple points during the reading — check out the recording of Buck Downs, Kate Pyontek, @ctsalazar.bsky.socialyoutu.be/FqHVLcJSec4

I mean

The basketball stadium at my uni is named after Walter Sillers Jr. As the archivist, his collection is under my care. Here’s his Wikipedia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_....

This is so fuckn real

I was in Mississippi as a visiting writer of a university to speak on my novel which was where I met my homie the poet @ctsalazar.bsky.social, & the post office of the town had a framed portrait of a Klansman on its wall. So never lie in southerners faces if their terror becomes sudden news to you.

Frank Bidart ✨

Thanks so much Han 🙏🏼

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Nearly every decade saw a galvanized group of poets using community to turn poetic impulse into democratic exercise. Through weekly Sunday meetings and Monday check-ins we’ll read the poetries of thes...

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Once again thinking about these perfect two stanzas from Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Jerusalem”