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Christian retweeted
keegan@FranziaMomSep 15
it’s starting to feel like fall, so it’s once again time for HOW TO LIKE IT by Stephen Dobyns, a poem I think about almost every day of my life
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I wrote about the best advice I’ve ever gotten about time, which saved me as a writer, & the ruthlessness necessary for any writing practice. Full essay here: garthgreenwell.substack.com/…
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The lead author of the Times Khamenei obituary started there in 1981 and was “the last Reuters correspondent known to have filed dispatches by carrier pigeon.”
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Friend’s son (8) informs me that if being a professional baseball player doesn’t work out, he is considering a career in poetry.
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One of my favorite short lectures by Anne Carson.
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LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest
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"Can I read you some of my poetry?"
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Christian retweeted
Jad Josey@jadjosey21 Jul 2025
The way this @toddedillard poem lives in my brain every goddamn day.
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Christian retweeted
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@NASA14 Mar 2025
We've looked at an eclipse from both sides now... While @NASAGlenn was looking up to see last night's Blood Moon, @fireflyspace's Blue Ghost lunar lander was looking back at the "diamond ring" of a solar eclipse. A reminder that what you see often depends on your point of view.
The lunar eclipse as seen above the Space Environments Complex at NASA’s Glenn Research Center at Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, during the early hours of March 14, 2025. A white to orange to red gradient sweeps across the Moon from the top left to the bottom right of its full disc. Credit: NASA/Sara Lowthian-Hanna

ALT The lunar eclipse as seen above the Space Environments Complex at NASA’s Glenn Research Center at Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, during the early hours of March 14, 2025. A white to orange to red gradient sweeps across the Moon from the top left to the bottom right of its full disc. Credit: NASA/Sara Lowthian-Hanna

The solar eclipse as seen from the surface of the Moon in Mare Crisium by the Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander. The Sun's corona shines as a bright circle around the dark disc of the Earth. A "diamond ring" flare glows at the five o'clock position against the darkness of space. Credit: Firefly Aerospace

ALT The solar eclipse as seen from the surface of the Moon in Mare Crisium by the Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander. The Sun's corona shines as a bright circle around the dark disc of the Earth. A "diamond ring" flare glows at the five o'clock position against the darkness of space. Credit: Firefly Aerospace

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I love this so much ❤️📚 – at Los Angeles, CA
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for a few weeks I've had a tab open to these lines from Macbeth
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Saying goodbye to The city’s last public pay phone booth 50th and 7th. Times square @1010WINS – at Times Square, Manhattan
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Oscar predictions: Gyre: widening The centre cannot: hold Mere anarchy: loosed upon world The ceremony of innocence: drowned The best lack: all conviction Rough beast: slouches towards Bethlehem Best Picture: CODA
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That's it. Poem about life.
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25 years ago I tore this Richard Wilbur poem out of the New Yorker because I loved it so much. I still think its final stanza is one of the most beautiful descriptions of love I know: “Like a good fiddle, like the rose’s scent, / Like a rose window, or the firmament.”
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Happy "Lana Turner" poem day to all who celebrate! On this day in 1962, Frank O'Hara wrote this poem on the Staten Island ferry (on his way to give a reading with Robert Lowell) after seeing a tabloid headline. More here on what actually happened to Lana: newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress…
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William Stafford.
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This O’Hara poem, one of my all-time faves.
Poem Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

ALT Poem Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

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I walk half a block before realizing I’ve forgotten my mask. —Harryette Mullen #PoemADay poets.org/poem/conversation-…

Conversation in Isolation

Neighbors nail the planks / dividing their yard from mine.

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