I was moved by these observations around responsibility, faith, and the magic of things: completeworks.substack.com/p/so-this-is...

So This Is The New Year

Some Rosh Hashanah thoughts, a few announcements, and a visit to a brilliant gallery show

I am really excited about this book

Thx for sharing, Steve!

"How To Keep Going When Your Life Implodes," an interview with the very wise @johncotter.bsky.social, author of the memoir LOSING MUSIC.

How To Keep Going When Your Life Implodes

Pain, Change, and the Next Meaningful Step

paintings don't lie

Game, set, match:

time for another scolding, you worms (empowering)

Well, I haven't got a twitter account. And what good would it do. And yelling at a poetry critic about this stuff (just a random public shout! Not an articulate letter, etc) and thinking it will accomplish anything, is deeply delusional.

Trying to stop a middle-eastern atrocity by yelling at the NYT poetry critic on social media is one of the silliest and most frivolously self-important things I have ever witnessed.

Thought @patricknathan.bsky.socialopen.substack.com/pub/patrickn...

When the Cold War Came Home

To restore credibility to repressive and genocidal states, one cannot rely on history. That is why fascists and imperialists turn to myths.